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Lamentations 5:17

Young's Literal Translation 1862

For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.

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And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.

Favour me, O Jehovah, for distress `is' to me, Mine eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation.

I have been feeble and smitten -- unto excess, I have roared from disquietude of heart.

Old from provocation is mine eye, It is old because of all mine adversaries,

I have been wearied with my calling, Burnt hath been my throat, Consumed have been mine eyes, waiting for my God.

Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostacy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart `is' sick.

As a crane -- a swallow -- so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression `is' on me, be my surety.

Wherefore have I seen them dismayed -- They are turned backward, And their mighty ones are beaten down, And `to' a refuge they have fled, and not turned the face? Fear `is' round about -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

My refreshing for me `is' sorrow, For me my heart `is' sick.

From above He hath sent fire into my bone, And it subdueth it, He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me backward, He hath made me desolate -- all the day sick.

Come in doth all their evil before Thee, And one is doing to them as Thou hast done to me, For all my transgressions, For many `are' my sighs, and my heart `is' sick!

Consumed by tears have been my eyes, Troubled have been my bowels, Poured out to the earth hath been my liver, For the breach of the daughter of my people; In infant and suckling being feeble, In the broad places of the city,

To melt the heart, and to multiply the ruins, By all their gates I have set the point of a sword. Ah, it is made for brightness, Wrapt up for slaughter.

and it hath come to pass, when they say unto thee, For what art thou sighing? that thou hast said: Because of the report, for it is coming, And melted hath every heart, And feeble hath been all hands, And weak is every spirit, And all knees go -- waters, Lo, it is coming, yea, it hath been, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

`And those who are left of you -- I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away hath pursued them, and they have fled -- flight from a sword -- and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing.

And I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate, because of thy sins.

`And among those nations thou dost not rest, yea, there is no resting-place for the sole of thy foot, and Jehovah hath given to thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and grief of soul;




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