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Lamentations 5:17 KJV

Lamentations · chapter 5 · verse 17

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.Lamentations 5:17 · King James Version

Lamentations 5:17 in context

15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

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Commentary

Here, I. The people of God express the deep concern they had for the ruins of the temple, more than for any other of their calamities; the interests of God's house lay nearer their hearts than those of their own (Lam 5:17, Lam 5:18): For this our heart is faint, and sinks under the load of its own heaviness;

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-22

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