Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,
New American Standard Bible
Because of these things our
King James Version
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Holman Bible
because of these, our eyes grow dim:
International Standard Version
This is why our hearts faint, and why our eyes grow dim:
A Conservative Version
For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim,
American Standard Version
For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
Amplified
Because of this our heart is faint,
Because of these things our eyes are dim.
Bible in Basic English
Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;
Julia Smith Translation
For this our heart was languid; for this our eyes were darkened.
King James 2000
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Because of this, our heart has become faint, because of these, our eyes have become dim.
Modern King James verseion
Our heart is faint for this; our eyes are dim for these things.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Therefore our heart is full of heaviness, and our eyes dim:
NET Bible
Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears.
New Heart English Bible
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes grow dim.
The Emphasized Bible
For this cause, faint is our heart, For these things, dimmed are our eyes:
Webster
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
World English Bible
For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
Youngs Literal Translation
For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned! 17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim, 18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.
Cross References
Isaiah 1:5
Why should ye be smitten any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Lamentations 2:11
Mine eyes are consumed with tears, my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the ruin of the daughter of my people; because infant and suckling swoon in the streets of the city.
Job 17:7
And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.
Psalm 6:7
Mine eye wasteth away through grief; it hath grown old because of all mine oppressors.
Leviticus 26:36
And as to those that remain of you I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, that the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth;
Deuteronomy 28:65
And among these nations shalt thou have no rest, neither shall the sole of thy foot have a resting-place, and Jehovah shall give thee there a trembling heart, languishing of the eyes, and pining of the soul.
Psalm 31:9
Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble: mine eye wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly.
Psalm 69:3
I am weary with my crying, my throat is parched; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Isaiah 38:14
Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed with looking upward: Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Jeremiah 8:18
My comfort in my sadness! my heart is faint in me!
Jeremiah 46:5
Why do I see them dismayed, turned away back? And their mighty ones are beaten down, and take to flight, and look not back? Terror is on every side, saith Jehovah.
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.
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.
Ezekiel 21:7
And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore dost thou sigh? 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 languish, and all knees shall melt into water: behold, it cometh; it is here, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 21:15
In order that the heart may melt, and the stumbling-blocks be multiplied, I have set the threatening sword against all their gates: ah! it is made glittering, it is whetted for the slaughter.
Micah 6:13
Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee; I will make thee desolate because of thy sins.