Lamentations 5:17
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
- KJV
- For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
- WEB
- For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:
- ASV
- For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
- DARBY
- For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,
- BLB
- Upon thus our heart has become faint; for these our eyes grow dim.
- ÅB
- Derfor er vårt hjerte sykt, derfor er våre øyne blitt dimme,
- OTB
- Av denne grunn er våre hjerter svake; og på grunn av disse hendelsene blir våre øyne svake;
- B1930
- Derfor er vårt hjerte sykt, derfor er våre øine blitt dimme,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 6:7
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:5
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Read in contextLamentations 2:11
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Read in contextJob 17:7
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Read in contextIsaiah 38:14
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Read in contextEzekiel 21:7
And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
Read in contextJeremiah 46:5
Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
Read in contextMicah 6:13
Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
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