Lamentations 5:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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.

Lamentations 5:17

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