King James Version
Lamentations 5:17 in the King James Version says “For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.” — study this verse from Lamentations chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.”
Lamentations 5:17 · KJV
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! The: Heb. The crown of our head is fallen
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
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above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“For this our heart”
H3820the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the center of anything
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“for these things our eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
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