Lamentations 5:17 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.”
Lamentations 5:17 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 5:17 in 6 Bible Translations
Read Lamentations 5:17 in the King James Version (KJV) and 5 other free, public-domain translations side by side.
Lamentations 5:17 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:”
Lamentations 5:17 — World English Bible
Lamentations 5:17 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;”
Lamentations 5:17 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 5:17 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.”
Lamentations 5:17 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 5:17 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim, ”
Lamentations 5:17 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 5:17 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,”
Lamentations 5:17 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 5:17 in Context — Lamentations 5
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
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.
19 Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
What Does Lamentations 5:17 Mean?
Lamentations 5:17 is a verse from the Book of Lamentations, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Lamentations chapter 5. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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