Lamentations 5:17
Lamentations · Old Testament · Chapter 5
“For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.”Lamentations 5:17
What Does Lamentations 5:17 Mean?
Lamentations 5:17 is found in the book of Lamentations, chapter 5, verse 17 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Lamentations 5:17 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Psalms 6:7“Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.”Isaiah 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.”Job 17:7“Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.”Lamentations 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 of the city.”Isaiah 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.”Jeremiah 8:18“When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.”Lamentations 1:22“Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.”Leviticus 26:36“And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a 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 fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.”Deuteronomy 28:29“And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.”Deuteronomy 28:32“Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand:”Deuteronomy 28:65“And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:”Psalms 31:9“Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.”Psalms 69:3“I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.”Jeremiah 14:6“And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.”Jeremiah 17:3“O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.”Jeremiah 46:5“Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.”Lamentations 1:13“From above 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.”Ezekiel 21:7“And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because 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 shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.”Ezekiel 21:15“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.”Micah 6:13“Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.”
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