Lamentations 5:17

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Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears.

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  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Why do you insist on being battered? Why do you continue to rebel? Your head has a massive wound, your whole heart is sick.
  • Lam 2:11 : 11 כ(Kaf) My eyes are worn out from weeping; my stomach is in knots. My heart is poured out on the ground due to the destruction of my helpless people; children and infants faint in the town squares.
  • Job 17:7 : 7 My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.
  • Ps 6:7 : 7 My eyes grow dim from suffering; they grow weak because of all my enemies.
  • Ps 31:9 : 9 Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God.
  • Isa 38:14 : 14 Like a swallow or a thrush I chirp, I coo like a dove; my eyes grow tired from looking up to the sky. O Lord, I am oppressed; help me!
  • Jer 8:18 : 18 Then I said,“There is no cure for my grief! I am sick at heart!
  • Jer 46:5 : 5 “What do I see! The soldiers are frightened. They are retreating. They are being scattered. They have fled for refuge without looking back. Terror is all around them,” says the LORD.
  • Lam 1:13 : 13 מ(Mem) He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper’s net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long.
  • Lam 1:22 : 22 ת(Tav) Let all their wickedness come before you; afflict them just as you have afflicted me because of all my acts of rebellion. For my groans are many, and my heart is sick with sorrow.
  • Ezek 21:7 : 7 When they ask you,‘Why are you groaning?’ you will reply,‘Because of the report that has come. Every heart will melt with fear and every hand will be limp; everyone will faint and every knee will be wet with urine.’ Pay attention– it is coming and it will happen, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
  • Ezek 21:15 : 15 So hearts melt with fear and many stumble. At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter. Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter!
  • Mic 6:13 : 13 I will strike you brutally and destroy you because of your sin.
  • Lev 26:36 : 36 “‘As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.
  • Deut 28:65 : 65 Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.

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