Lamentations 5:17

Lamentations chapter 5 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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

v.16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

v.17This passage

v.18For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Lamentations 2:11
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 1:13
From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
Isaiah 38:14
Like a swallowora crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
Deuteronomy 28:65
And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot: but Jehovah will give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;
Job 17:7
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
Ezekiel 21:7
And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt say, Because of the tidings, for it cometh; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord Jehovah.