Lamentations 5:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,

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  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Wherefore shoulde ye be smitten any more? For ye fall away more and more: the whole head is sicke, and the whole heart is heauie.
  • Lam 2:11 : 11 Mine eyes doe saile with teares: my bowels swell: my liuer is powred vpon the earth, for the destructio of the daughter of my people, because the children and sucklings swoone in the streetes of the citie.
  • Job 17:7 : 7 Mine eye therefore is dimme for griefe, and all my strength is like a shadowe.
  • Ps 6:7 : 7 Mine eye is dimmed for despight, and sunke in because of all mine enemies.
  • Ps 31:9 : 9 Haue mercie vpon mee, O Lorde: for I am in trouble: mine eye, my soule and my bellie are consumed with griefe.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am wearie of crying: my throte is drie: mine eyes faile, whiles I waite for my God.
  • Isa 38:14 : 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourne as a doue: mine eies were lift vp on high: O Lord, it hath oppressed me, comfort me.
  • Jer 8:18 : 18 I would haue comforted my selfe against sorowe, but mine heart is heauie in me.
  • Jer 46:5 : 5 Wherefore haue I seene them afraid, and driuen backe? For their mighty men are smitten, and are fled away, and looke not backe: for feare was rounde about, sayeth the Lord.
  • Lam 1:13 : 13 From aboue hath hee sent fire into my bones, which preuaile against them: he hath spred a net for my feete, and turned me backe: hee hath made me desolate, and daily in heauinesse.
  • Lam 1:22 : 22 Let al their wickednes come before thee: do vnto them, as thou hast done vnto me, for all my transgressions: for my sighes are many, & mine heart is heauy.
  • Ezek 21:7 : 7 And if they say vnto thee, Wherefore mournest thou? then answere, Because of the bruite: for it commeth, and euery heart shall melt, and all handes shall be weake, and all mindes shall faint, and all knees shall fall away as water: beholde, it commeth, and shall be done, saith the Lord God.
  • Ezek 21:15 : 15 I haue brought the feare of the sword into all their gates to make their heart to faint, and to multiplie their ruines. Ah it is made bright, and it is dressed for the slaughter.
  • Mic 6:13 : 13 Therefore also will I make thee sicke in smiting thee, and in making thee desolate, because of thy sinnes.
  • Lev 26:36 : 36 And vpon them that are left of you, I will send euen a faintnes into their hearts in ye land of their enemies, & the sounde of a leafeshaken shal chase them, and they shall flee as fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall, no man pursuing them.
  • Deut 28:65 : 65 Also among these nations thou shalt finde no rest, neither shall the sole of thy foote haue rest: for the Lord shal giue thee there a trembling heart, and looking to returne till thine eyes fall out, and a sorowfull minde.

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

    16 The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.

  • 18 Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.

  • Lam 4:17-18
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    17 Whiles we waited for our vaine helpe, our eyes failed: for in our waiting we looked for a nation that could not saue vs.

    18 They hunt our steppes that we cannot goe in our streetes: our ende is neere, our dayes are fulfilled, for our ende is come.

  • 10 Mine heart panteth: my strength faileth me, and the light of mine eyes, euen they are not mine owne.

  • 7 Mine eye therefore is dimme for griefe, and all my strength is like a shadowe.

  • Isa 59:9-12
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    9 Therefore is iudgement farre from vs, neither doeth iustice come neere vnto vs: we waite for light, but loe, it is darkenesse: for brightnesse, but we walke in darkenesse.

    10 Wee grope for the wall like the blinde, and we grope as one without eyes: we stumble at the noone day as in the twilight: we are in solitarie places, as dead men.

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

    12 For our trespasses are many before thee, and our sinnes testifie against vs: for our trespasses are with vs, and we knowe our iniquities

  • Jer 9:18-19
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    18 And let them make haste, & let them take vp a lamentation for vs, that our eyes may cast out teares & our eye liddes gush out of water.

    19 For a lamentable noyse is heard out of Zion, Howe are we destroyed, and vtterly confounded, for we haue forsaken the land, and our dwellings haue cast vs out.

  • 51 Mine eye breaketh mine heart because of all the daughters of my citie.

  • 18 I would haue comforted my selfe against sorowe, but mine heart is heauie in me.

  • 4 And my spirit was in perplexitie in me, and mine heart within me was amased.

  • Jer 14:19-20
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    19 Hast thou vtterly reiected Iudah, or hath thy soule abhorred Zion? why hast thou smitten vs, that we cannot be healed? Wee looked for peace, and there is no good, and for the time of health, and behold trouble.

    20 We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickednesse and the iniquitie of our fathers: for we haue sinned against thee.

  • 16 For these things I weepe: mine eye, euen mine eye casteth out water, because the comforter that should refresh my soule, is farre from me: my children are desolate, because the enemie preuailed.

  • 51 Wee are confounded because wee haue heard reproch: shame hath couered our faces, for straungers are come into the Sanctuaries of the Lordes House.

  • 11 The House of our Sanctuarie & of our glorie, where our fathers praysed thee, is burnt vp with fire and all our pleasant things are wasted.

  • 1 Remember, O Lorde, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.

  • 1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee nowe that thou art wholy gone vp vnto the house toppes?

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    7 O Lord, righteousnes belongeth vnto thee, and vnto vs open shame, as appeareth this day vnto euery man of Iudah, and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem: yea, vnto all Israel, both neere and farre off, through all the countreys, whither thou hast driuen them, because of their offences, that they haue committed against thee.

    8 O Lord, vnto vs apperteineth open shame, to our Kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we haue sinned against thee.

  • 7 From the dayes of our fathers haue we bin in a great trespasse vnto this day, and for our iniquities haue we, our Kings, & our Priestes bene deliuered into the hand of the kings of the lands, vnto the sword, into captiuitie, into a spoyle, and into confusion of face, as appeareth this day.

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    7 Mine eye is dimmed for despight, and sunke in because of all mine enemies.

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    24 For confusion hath deuoured our fathers labour, from our youth their sheepe and their bullocks, their sonnes and their daughters.

    25 Wee lie downe in our confusion, and our shame couereth vs: for we haue sinned against the Lorde our God, we and our fathers from our youth, euen vnto this day, and haue not obeyed the voyce of the Lord our God.

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    8 Wherfore the wrath of the Lord hath bin on Iudah and Ierusalem: and he hath made them a scattering, a desolation, and an hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

    9 For lo, our fathers are fallen by the sword, and our sonnes, and our daughters, and our wiues are in captiuitie for the same cause.

  • 11 Mine eyes doe saile with teares: my bowels swell: my liuer is powred vpon the earth, for the destructio of the daughter of my people, because the children and sucklings swoone in the streetes of the citie.

  • Lam 3:47-48
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    47 Feare, and a snare is come vpon vs with desolation and destruction.

    48 Mine eye casteth out riuers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • 11 They haue compassed vs now in our steps: they haue set their eyes to bring downe to the ground:

  • 16 Is not the meate cut off before our eyes? & ioy, and gladnesse from the house of our God?

  • 5 For it is a day of trouble, and of ruine, and of perplexitie by the Lorde God of hostes in the valley of vision, breaking downe the citie: and a crying vnto the mountaines.

  • 17 All handes shalbe weake, and all knees shall fall away as water.

  • 12 O our God, wilt thou not iudge them? For there is no strength in vs to stand before this great multitude that commeth against vs, neither doe wee knowe what to doe: but our eyes are toward thee.

  • 6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beautie is departed: her princes are become like harts that finde no pasture, & they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

  • 9 Haue mercie vpon mee, O Lorde: for I am in trouble: mine eye, my soule and my bellie are consumed with griefe.

  • 24 We haue heard their fame, and our handes waxe feeble sorrowe is come vpon vs, as the sorrowe of a woman in trauaile.

  • 3 We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.

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    17 All this is come vpon vs, yet doe wee not forget thee, neither deale wee falsly concerning thy couenant.

    18 Our heart is not turned backe: neither our steps gone out of thy paths,

  • 5 Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.

  • 8 Doubtlesse Ierusalem is fallen, and Iudah is fallen downe, because their tongue & workes are against the Lord, to prouoke the eyes of his glory.

  • 17 But if ye will not heare this, my soule shall weepe in secrete for your pride, and mine eye shall weepe and drop downe teares, because the Lords flocke is caried away captiue.