Lamentations 5:17

American Standard Version (1901)

For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

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  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
  • Lam 2:11 : 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
  • Job 17:7 : 7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
  • Ps 6:7 : 7 Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.
  • Ps 31:9 : 9 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
  • Isa 38:14 : 14 Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
  • Jer 8:18 : 18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.
  • Jer 46:5 : 5 Wherefore have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: terror is on every side, saith Jehovah.
  • Lam 1:13 : 13 From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
  • Lam 1:22 : 22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; And do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
  • Ezek 21:7 : 7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt say, Because of the tidings, for 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 it shall be done, saith the Lord Jehovah.
  • Ezek 21:15 : 15 I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.
  • Mic 6:13 : 13 Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound; I have made thee desolate because of thy sins.
  • Lev 26:36 : 36 And as for them that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one fleeth from the sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
  • Deut 28:65 : 65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot: but Jehovah will give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;

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    15The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

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    18For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.

  • Lam 4:17-18
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    17Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

    18They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

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    10My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

  • Job 17:7
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    7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

  • Isa 59:9-12
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    9Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

    10We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.

    11We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

    12For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

  • Jer 9:18-19
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    18and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

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    51Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

  • Jer 8:18
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    18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

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    4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.

  • Jer 14:19-20
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    19Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

    20We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.

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    16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.

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    51We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of Jehovah's house.

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    11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.

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    1Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.

  • Isa 22:1
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  • Dan 9:7-8
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    7O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

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    7Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.

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    24But the shameful thing hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

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    8Wherefore the wrath of Jehovah was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

    9For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

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    11Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

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    47Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.

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    17All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

  • 2 Chr 20:12
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    9Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.

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    3We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

  • Ps 44:17-18
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    17All this is come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten thee, Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

    18Our heart is not turned back, Neither have our steps declined from thy way,

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    5Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

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    8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

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    17But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah's flock is taken captive.