Lamentations 5:17

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,

Cross References

Job 17:7

My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.

Psalm 31:9

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief, my soul and my body also.

Psalm 38:8

I am utterly spent and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.

Psalm 6:7

My eye wastes away because of grief, it grows weak because of all my foes.

Psalm 69:3

I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.

Isaiah 1:5

Why will you still be smitten, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow or a crane I clamor, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be thou my security!

Jeremiah 46:5

Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and have turned backward. Their warriors are beaten down, and have fled in haste; they look not back— terror on every side! says the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:18

My grief is beyond healing, my heart is sick within me.

Lamentations 1:13

“From on high he sent fire; into my bones he made it descend; he spread a net for my feet; he turned me back; he has left me stunned, faint all the day long.

Lamentations 1:22

“Let all their evil-doing come before thee; and deal with them as thou hast dealt with me because of all my transgressions; for my groans are many and my heart is faint.”

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are spent with weeping; my soul is in tumult; my heart is poured out in grief because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babes faint in the streets of the city.

Ezekiel 21:15

that their hearts may melt, and many fall at all their gates. I have given the glittering sword; ah! it is made like lightning, it is polished for slaughter.

Ezekiel 21:7

And when they say to you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the tidings. When it comes, every heart will melt and all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes and it will be fulfilled,’ ” says the Lord God.

Leviticus 26:36

And as for those of you that are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.

Micah 6:13

Therefore I have begun to smite you, making you desolate because of your sins.

Deuteronomy 28:65

And among these nations you shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot; but the Lord will give you there a trembling heart, and failing eyes, and a languishing soul;