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Lamentations 5:17

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

KJV

Propterea mœstum factum est cor nostrum ; ideo contenebrati sunt oculi nostri,

Vulgate

περὶ τούτου ἐγενήθη ὀδύνη ὀδυνηρὰ ἡ καρδία ἡμῶν, περὶ τούτου ἐσκότασαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ ἡμῶν.

LXX

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

ASV

עַל זֶ֗ה הָיָ֤ה דָוֶה֙ לִבֵּ֔/נוּ עַל אֵ֖לֶּה חָשְׁכ֥וּ עֵינֵֽי/נוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵ֖לֶּה
'lh
pronoun · 744×
דָוָ֔ה
dvh
adjective · 5×
זֶּֽה
zh
pronoun · 1173×
חָשְׁכ֥וּ
chshkv
verb · 18×
י
y
noun · 591×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
ךָ
k
noun · 894×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Isa 1:5 — Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
  • Isa 38:14 — Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
  • Jer 8:18 — When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
  • Job 17:7 — Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
  • Lam 2:11 — Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets o
  • Ps 6:7 — Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
  • Ps 6:7 — Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.