Lamentations 5:17

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Therefore our heart is full of heauinesse, and our eyes dimme.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Why shoulde ye be stricken any more? for ye are euer fallyng away: euery head is diseased, and euery heart heauy:
  • Lam 2:11 : 11 Mine eyes begin to fayle me through weeping, my body is disquieted, my liuer is powred vpon the earth for the great hurt of the daughter of my people, seeing the chyldren and babes dyd swowne in the streetes of the citie.
  • Job 17:7 : 7 Myne eye is dimme for very heauinesse, and all my strength is lyke a shadowe.
  • Ps 6:7 : 7 Mine eye is almost put out through griefe: and worne out through all mine enemies.
  • Ps 31:9 : 9 Haue mercy vpon me O God, for I am in distresse: mine eye, my soule, and my belly be consumed for very heauinesse.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am weery of crying, my throte is drye: my syght fayleth me through the long attendaunce that I haue geuen vpon my Lorde.
  • Isa 38:14 : 14 Then chattered I lyke a swallowe, and lyke a crane, and mourned lyke a doue, I lift vp mine eyes into the heyght: O Lorde sayde my sicknesse kepeth me downe, ease thou me.
  • Jer 8:18 : 18 I woulde haue had comfort against sorowe: but sorowe is come vpon me, and heauinesse vexeth my heart.
  • Jer 46:5 : 5 But alas, howe happeneth it that I see you so afraide? why shrinke ye backe? Their worthyes are slayne, yea they runne so fast away that none of them looketh behinde hym: fearefulnesse is fallen vpon euery one of them saith the Lorde.
  • Lam 1:13 : 13 From aboue hath he sent downe a fire into my bones, and it burneth them cruelly: he hath layde a net for my feete, and throwen me wyde open, he hath made me desolate, so that I must euer be mournyng.
  • Lam 1:22 : 22 Let all their wickednesse come before thee, and do thou to them as thou hast done vnto me for all my trespasses: for my sorowe is very great, and my heart is heauy.
  • Ezek 21:7 : 7 And if they say vnto thee, wherfore mournest thou? Then tell them, for the tidinges that commeth: All heartes shall melt, all handes shalbe letten downe, all stomackes shal faynt, and all knees shall go as water: beholde it commeth, and shalbe brought to passe, saith the Lorde God.
  • Ezek 21:15 : 15 To make them faynt at the heartes, and to multiplie their falles, in all their gates, haue I geuen the terrour of the sworde: Ah it is made bright, and dressed for the slaughter.
  • Mic 6:13 : 13 Therefore I wyll take in hande to punishe thee, and to make thee desolate, because of thy sinnes.
  • Lev 26:36 : 36 And vpon them that are left alyue of you, I will sende a fayntnesse into their heartes in the landes of their enemies: and the sounde of a shakyng leafe shall chase them, and they shall flee as fleyng from a sworde: they shall fall, no man folowyng vpon them.
  • Deut 28:65 : 65 And among these nations thou shalt finde no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foote haue rest: But the Lorde shal geue thee there an vnquiet heart, and dasing eyes, and sorowe of minde.

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    15 The ioy of our heart is gone, our melodious meeting is turned into mourning.

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  • Lam 5:18
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    18 Because of the hill of Sion that is destroyed: insomuch that the foxes runne vpon it.

  • Lam 4:17-18
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    17 Wherefore yet our eyes fayled vs, whyles we looked for our vayne helpe, seeing we euer wayted vpon a people that coulde do vs no good.

    18 They lay so sharpe wayte for vs, that we can not go safe vpon the streetes, for our ende is come, our dayes are fulfilled, our ende is here.

  • Ps 38:10
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    10 My heart panteth, my strength hath fayled me: and the lyght of myne eyes is gone from me.

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    7 Myne eye is dimme for very heauinesse, and all my strength is lyke a shadowe.

  • Isa 59:9-12
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    9 And this is the cause that equitie is so farre from vs, and that righteousnesse commeth not nie vs: We loke for light, lo it is darknesse: for the morning shine, see, we walke in the darke.

    10 We grope lyke the blinde vpon the wall, we grope euen as one that hath none eyes, we stumble at the noone day as though it were towarde night, in the falling places, lyke men that are halfe dead.

    11 We roare all like beares, and mourne still like doues: we looke for equitie, but there is none: for health, but it is farre from vs.

    12 For our offences are many before thee, and our sinnes testifie against vs: yea we must confesse that we offende, and knowledge that we do amisse,

  • Jer 9:18-19
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    18 And sing a mourning song of vs, that the teares may fall out of our eyes, and that our eye liddes may gushe out of water.

    19 For there is a lamentable noyse heard of Sion: O howe are we so sore destroyed? O howe are we so pitiously confounded? We must forsake our owne naturall countrey, and we are shut out of our owne lodginges.

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    51 Mine eyes breaketh my heart, because of all the daughters of my citie.

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    18 I woulde haue had comfort against sorowe: but sorowe is come vpon me, and heauinesse vexeth my heart.

  • Ps 143:4
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    4 And my spirite is ouerwhelmed within me: and my heart is desolate in the midst of me.

  • Jer 14:19-20
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    19 Hast thou then vtterly forsaken Iuda? Doest thou so abhorre Sion? Wherfore hast thou so plagued vs, that we can be healed no more? We loked for peace, and there commeth no good, for the tyme of health, and lo here is nothyng but trouble.

    20 We knowledge (O Lorde) all our misdeedes, and the sinnes of our fathers: for we haue offended thee.

  • Lam 1:16
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    16 Therfore do I weepe, and mine eyes gushe out of water: for the comfort that shoulde quicken me is farre fro me, my children are driuen away: for why? the enemie hath gotten the vpper hande.

  • Jer 51:51
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    51 For we are ashamed to heare the blasphemies, our faces were couered with shame, because the straunge aliauntes came into the sanctuarie of the Lorde.

  • Isa 64:11
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    11 Our holy house whiche is our beautie where our fathers praysed thee, is brent vp: yea, all our commodities and pleasures are wasted away.

  • Lam 5:1
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    1 Call to remembraunce (O Lorde) what we haue suffred, consider and see our confusion.

  • Isa 22:1
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    1 The burthen of the valley of vision. What hast thou to do here, that thou clymbest to the house toppes?

  • Dan 9:7-8
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    7 O Lorde, righteousnesse belongeth vnto thee, vnto vs open shame, as is came to passe this day vnto euery man of Iuda, and to them that dwel at Hierusalem yea vnto all Israel, whether they be farre or nye throughout all the landes whither thou hast driuen them, because of their offences that they haue done against thee.

    8 Yea O Lorde, vnto vs, to our kinges & princes, to our forefathers that haue offended thee, belongeth open shame.

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    7 Since the time of our fathers haue we ben in great trespasse vnto this day, and because of our wickednesses haue we and our kinges and our priestes ben deliuered into the hande of the kinges of the nations, vnto the sworde, into captiuitie, into a spoyle, and into confusion of face, as it is to see this day.

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    25 For our soule is brought lowe vnto the dust: our belly cleaueth vnto the grounde.

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    82 Myne eyes haue faynted after thy worde: whylest I say, when wilt thou comfort me.

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    7 Mine eye is almost put out through griefe: and worne out through all mine enemies.

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    24 Confusion hath deuoured our fathers labour from our youth vp, yea their sheepe and bullockes, their sonnes and daughters.

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    8 Wherefore the wrath of the Lorde fell on Iuda & Hierusalem, and he hath brought them to trouble to be wondred on, & to be hissed at, euen as ye see with your eyes.

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    11 Mine eyes begin to fayle me through weeping, my body is disquieted, my liuer is powred vpon the earth for the great hurt of the daughter of my people, seeing the chyldren and babes dyd swowne in the streetes of the citie.

  • Lam 3:47-48
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    47 Feare and pit is come vpon vs, yea deceipt and destruction.

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    16 Is not the meate cut of before our eyes, yea mirth and ioy from the house of our God?

  • Isa 22:5
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    5 For this is a day of trouble, of ruine, and of destruction, that the Lorde the God of hoastes wyll bryng to passe in the valley of vision, breakyng downe the citie, and crying vnto mountaynes.

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    17 All handes shalbe let downe, and all knees shalbe weake as the water.

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    12 O our God, wilt thou not iudge them? for we haue no might against this great companie that commeth against vs: neither wote we what to do, but our eyes be vnto thee.

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    6 All the beautie of the daughter of Sion is away, her princes are become lyke hartes that fynde no pasture, they are driuen away before their enemie, so that they haue no more power.

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    9 Haue mercy vpon me O God, for I am in distresse: mine eye, my soule, and my belly be consumed for very heauinesse.

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    5 Our neckes are vnder persecution, we are weery and haue no rest.

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    8 For Hierusalem and Iuda must decay: because that both their wordes and counsayles are agaynst the Lorde to prouoke the presence of his maiestie to anger.

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    17 But if ye wyll not heare me that geue you secrete warnyng, I wyll mourne from my whole heart for your stubburnnesse: Piteously wyll I weepe, and the teares shall gushe out of mine eyes, for the Lordes flocke shalbe caried away captiue.