Verse 17
Lamentations 5:17
New King James Version
17
For this our heart is faint; for these
things our eyes are dim.
Original Language Text
hebrew
עַל זֶ֗ה הָיָ֤ה דָוֶה֙ לִבֵּ֔/נוּ עַל אֵ֖לֶּה חָשְׁכ֥וּ עֵינֵֽי/נוּ
English Translation
Because of this, our hearts were faint; our eyes were darkened because of these.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 5 Context
1
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
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2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers
are as widows.
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4
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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5
Our necks
are under persecution: we labour,
and
have no rest.
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6
We have given the hand
to the Egyptians,
and to
the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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7
Our fathers have sinned,
and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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8
Servants have ruled over us:
there is none that doth deliver
us out of their hand.
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9
We gat our bread with
the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
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10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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11
They ravished the women in Zion,
and the maids in the cities of Judah.
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12
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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13
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
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14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
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15
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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16
The crown is fallen
from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
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17
For this our heart is faint; for these
things our eyes are dim.
18
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
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19
Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
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20
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever,
and forsake us so long time?
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21
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
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22
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
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