¹⁶ The crown has been taken from our head. Sorrow is ours, for we are sinners. ¹⁷ Because of this our heart is faint,
Because of these things our eyes are dim;
¹⁸ The mountain of Zion is a waste. So jackals go there.

Phrases

For This Cause

Heart is Faint

Heart Is Sick

Cross References

Isaiah 1:5

Why do you still want to be beaten? Why do you continue to rebel? Your whole head is infected. Your whole heart is sick.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail from weeping. I am in torment. My heart is pulled out of me to the ground because my people are destroyed. Because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

Job 17:7

My eyes are dim because of grief. My limbs are like a shadow.

Psalm 6:7

My eyes grow weak with sorrow. I am weak because of all my foes.

Leviticus 26:36

I will fill those who are left in the land of their enemies with despair. The sound of a windblown leaf will make them run. They will run away and fall, but no one will be chasing them.

Deuteronomy 28:65

You will find no peace among those nations. There will be no place to call your own. There Jehovah will give you an unsettled mind, failing eyesight, and despair.

Psalm 31:9

Be gracious to me, O Jehovah, because I am in distress. My eyes, my life, and my body waste away with grief.

Psalm 69:3

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

Isaiah 38:14

I cry like a swallow (swift). I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, Jehovah. I am terribly abused. Please come and help me.

Jeremiah 8:18

My sorrow is beyond healing, my heart is faint within me!

Jeremiah 46:5

What do I see in them? They are terrified. They are retreating. Their warriors are defeated. They flee without looking back. Terror is all around them! declares Jehovah.

Lamentations 1:13

He sends fire into my bones from on high. It overcomes them. His net is stretched out for my feet. He turns me back. He made me waste and feeble all the day.

Lamentations 1:22

Let all their badness come before you. Do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.

Ezekiel 21:7

When they ask why you are groaning tell this: 'News has come that will discourage everyone. People's hands will hang limp, their hearts will lose courage, and their knees will become as weak as water. It is coming! It will surely take place!' Declares the Lord Jehovah.

Ezekiel 21:15

that their hearts may melt (lose their courage), and many fall at all their gates. I have given the glittering sword. Ah! It is made for striking like lightning. It is wrapped up in readiness for slaughter.

Micah 6:13

I also struck you with a grievous wound. I made you desolate because of your sins.