Lamentations 5:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
  • Lam 2:11 : 11 My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
  • Job 17:7 : 7 My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are like a shadow.
  • Ps 6:7 : 7 My eye is consumed because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies.
  • Ps 31:9 : 9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my body.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am weary of my crying; my throat is dry; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
  • Isa 38:14 : 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
  • Jer 8:18 : 18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.
  • Jer 46:5 : 5 Why have I seen them dismayed and turned back? Their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled quickly, and do not look back: for fear is all around, says the LORD.
  • Lam 1:13 : 13 From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.
  • Lam 1:22 : 22 Let all their wickedness come before you; and do unto them, as you have 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 to you, Why do you sigh? that you shall answer, For the tidings; because it comes: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be as weak as water: behold, it comes, and shall be brought to pass, says the Lord GOD.
  • Ezek 21:15 : 15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
  • Mic 6:13 : 13 Therefore I will make you sick by striking you, making you desolate because of your sins.
  • Lev 26:36 : 36 And upon those who are left alive of you I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one flees from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursues.
  • Deut 28:65 : 65 And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but the LORD shall give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

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  • Lam 4:17-18
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    17As for us, our eyes failed as we watched for a nation that could not save us.

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  • Ps 38:10
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    10My heart pants, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.

  • Job 17:7
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    7My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are like a shadow.

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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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    18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

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

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    16For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

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    11Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

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    7My eye is consumed because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies.

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    11My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

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    47Fear and a snare have come upon us, desolation and destruction.

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

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    17But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is taken captive.