Lamentations 5:17

New International Version

Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim

Cross References

Job 17:7

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

Psalm 31:9

Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and body with grief.

Psalm 38:8

I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.

Psalm 6:7

My eyes grow weak with sorrow; they fail because of all my foes.

Psalm 69:3

I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

Isaiah 1:5

Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted.

Isaiah 38:14

I cried like a swift or thrush, I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens. I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!”

Jeremiah 46:5

What do I see? They are terrified, they are retreating, their warriors are defeated. They flee in haste without looking back, and there is terror on every side,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:18

You who are my Comforter in sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

Lamentations 1:13

“From on high he sent fire, sent it down into my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

Lamentations 1:22

“Let all their wickedness come before you; deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my sins. My groans are many and my heart is faint.”

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

Ezekiel 21:15

So that hearts may melt with fear and the fallen be many, I have stationed the sword for slaughter at all their gates. Look! It is forged to strike like lightning, it is grasped for slaughter.

Ezekiel 21:7

And when they ask you, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt with fear and every hand go limp; every spirit will become faint and every leg will be wet with urine.’ It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

Leviticus 26:36

“ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them.

Micah 6:13

Therefore, I have begun to destroy you, to ruin you because of your sins.

Deuteronomy 28:65

Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.