Lamentations 5:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;

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  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.
  • Lam 2:11 : 11 My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.
  • Job 17:7 : 7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.
  • Ps 6:7 : 7 My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.
  • Ps 31:9 : 9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.
  • Isa 38:14 : 14 I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.
  • Jer 8:18 : 18 Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.
  • Jer 46:5 : 5 What have I seen? they are overcome with fear and turned back; their men of war are broken and have gone in flight, not looking back: fear is on every side, says the Lord.
  • Lam 1:13 : 13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.
  • Lam 1:22 : 22 Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.
  • Ezek 21:7 : 7 And when they say to you, Why are you making sounds of grief? then say, Because of the news, for it is coming: and every heart will become soft, and all hands will be feeble, and every spirit will be burning low, and all knees will be turned to water: see, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord.
  • Ezek 21:15 : 15 In order that hearts may become soft, and the number of those who are falling may be increased, I have sent death by the sword against all their doors: you are made like a flame, you are polished for death.
  • Mic 6:13 : 13 So I have made a start with your punishment; I have made you waste because of your sins.
  • Lev 26:36 : 36 And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;
  • Deut 28:65 : 65 And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and weariness of soul:

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    15 The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.

    16 The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

  • Lam 5:18
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    18 Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.

  • Lam 4:17-18
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    17 Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

    18 They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered; for our end has come.

  • Ps 38:10
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    10 My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.

  • Job 17:7
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    7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

  • Isa 59:9-12
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    10 We go on our way, like blind men feeling for the wall, even like those who have no eyes: we are running against things in daylight as if it was evening; our place is in the dark like dead men.

    11 We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.

    12 For our evil doings are increased before you, and our sins give witness against us: for our evil doings are with us, and we have knowledge of our sins:

  • Jer 9:18-19
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    18 Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.

    19 For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.

  • Lam 3:51
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    51 The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.

  • Jer 8:18
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    18 Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

  • Ps 143:4
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    4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • Jer 14:19-20
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    19 Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

    20 We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.

  • Lam 1:16
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    16 For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.

  • Jer 51:51
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    51 We are shamed because bitter words have come to our ears; our faces are covered with shame: for men from strange lands have come into the holy places of the Lord's house.

  • Isa 64:11
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    11 In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?

  • Lam 5:1
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    1 Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.

  • Isa 22:1
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    1 The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?

  • Dan 9:7-8
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    7 O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.

    8 O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you.

  • Ezra 9:7
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  • Ps 44:25
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    25 For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.

  • Ps 119:82
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    82 My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort?

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    7 My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.

  • Jer 3:24-25
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    24 But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

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  • 2 Chr 29:8-9
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    72%

    8 And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.

    9 For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.

  • Lam 2:11
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    11 My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

  • Lam 3:47-48
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    71%

    47 Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.

    48 Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Ps 17:11
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    11 They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

  • Joel 1:16
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    16 Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?

  • Isa 22:5
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    5 For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ...

  • Ezek 7:17
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    17 All hands will be feeble and all knees without strength, like water.

  • 2 Chr 20:12
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    12 O our God, will you not be their judge? for our strength is not equal to this great army which is coming against us; and we are at a loss what to do: but our eyes are on you.

  • Lam 1:6
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    6 And all her glory has gone from the daughter of Zion: her rulers have become like harts with no place for food, and they have gone in flight without strength before the attacker.

  • Ps 31:9
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    9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

  • Jer 6:24
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    24 The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

  • Lam 5:3
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    3 We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.

  • Ps 44:17-18
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    17 All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word.

    18 Our hearts have not gone back, and our steps have not been turned out of your way;

  • Lam 5:5
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    5 Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.

  • Isa 3:8
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    8 For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.

  • Jer 13:17
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    17 But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.