Lamentations 5:17

New English Translation

Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears.

Cross References

Job 17:7

My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.

Psalm 31:9

Have mercy on me, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.

Psalm 38:8

I am numb with pain and severely battered; I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.

Psalm 6:7

My eyes grow dim from suffering; they grow weak because of all my enemies.

Psalm 69:3

I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God.

Isaiah 1:5

Why do you insist on being battered? Why do you continue to rebel? Your head has a massive wound, your whole body is weak.

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow or a thrush I chirp, I coo like a dove; my eyes grow tired from looking up to the sky. O sovereign master, I am oppressed; help me!

Jeremiah 46:5

What do I see?” says the Lord. “The soldiers are terrified. They are retreating. They have been defeated. They are overcome with terror; they desert quickly without looking back.

Jeremiah 8:18

Then I said, “There is no cure for my grief! I am sick at heart!

Lamentations 1:13

He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper’s net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long. נ (Nun)

Lamentations 1:22

Let all their wickedness come before you; afflict them just as you have afflicted me because of all my acts of rebellion. For my groans are many, and my heart is sick with sorrow.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are worn out from weeping; my stomach is in knots. My heart is poured out on the ground due to the destruction of my helpless people; children and infants faint in the town squares. ל (Lamed)

Ezekiel 21:15

So hearts melt with fear and many stumble. At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter. Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter!

Ezekiel 21:7

When they ask you, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you will reply, ‘Because of the report that has come. Every heart will melt with fear and every hand will be limp; everyone will faint and every knee will be wet with urine.’ Pay attention – it is coming and it will happen, declares the sovereign Lord.”

Leviticus 26:36

“‘As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.

Micah 6:13

I will strike you brutally and destroy you because of your sin.

Deuteronomy 28:65

Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.