“ For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. ”
Is faint ... - Or, has become “faint” - have become “dim.” “For this,” i. e. for the loss of our crown etc.
For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our (i) eyes are dim. (i) With weeping.
Lamentations 5. A Prayer. This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It m...
this: ie. this sin. these things: i.e. loss of king, country, possessions, and liberties.
He connects sorrow here with the acknowledgment of sin, that the people under the pressure and agony of sorrow might apply their minds so as to consider their own sins. At the same time the Pro...
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. For this our heart is faint - ( Lamentations 1:22 ; Lamentations 2:11 ).
Zion's earnest Petition for Deliverance This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of vindictiveness. The...
For this... for these things. — The first clause refers to the loss of national honour indicated in Lamentations 5:16 ; the latter, to all the horrors named in Lamentations 5:8-15 .
SIN AND SHAME Lamentations 5:11-18 THE keynote of the fifth elegy is struck in its opening verse when the poet calls upon God to remember the reproach that has been cast upon His people. The pr...
The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction...
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there...
For this our heart is faint ,.... Our spirits sink; we are ready to swoon and die away; either for this, that we have sinned; because of our sins, they are so many, so great, and so aggravated; or f...
For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim. Ver. 17. For this our heart is faint. ] Ponit symbolum vere contritionis, we are sin sick even at heart; our sins are as so many...
For this our heart is faint And sinks under the load of its own heaviness. Our eyes are dim See on Lamentations 2:11 . Our spirits fail us, and we are almost blind with weeping. Because of the...
Unchangeableness of God; Prayer for Mercy and Grace. B. C. 588. 17 For this our heart...
Either for our sins these miseries are befallen us; or for these miseries our spirits fail us, and we are almost blinded with weeping.
For this our heart is faint, For these things our eyes are dim, It was because of all these things that their heart was faint, and their eyes were dim with weeping. Life had become a burden, full o...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:17 . How depressing is the conviction of personal sin. For this our heart has become faint. Many sorrows had surged over them and exhausted the faculty of ext...
REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85 ; Hosea 3 . T...
The elders have ceased from the gate. The seat of justice overthrown 1. It is a grievous plague unto a people when the seat of justice is overthrown from among them. (1) Reasons. (a) It b...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance. The land had been "given" to Abraham ( Genesis 13...
For this, on account of the great afflictions, well deserved as they were, our heart is faint, with the bitterness of the soul's pain; for these things are our eyes dim, the sorrow of the heart f...
Deuteronomy 28:65 ; Ezekiel 21:15 ; Ezekiel 21:7 ; Isaiah 1:5 ; Isaiah 38:14 ; Jeremiah 46:5 ; Jeremiah 8:18 ; Job 17:7 ; Lamentations 1:13 ; Lamentations 1:22 ; Lamentations 2:11 ; Levit...