Lamentations 5:17

Either for our sins these miseries are befallen us; or for these miseries our spirits fail us, and we are almost blinded with weeping.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Is faint ... - Or, has become “faint” - have become “dim.” “For this,” i. e. for the loss of our crown etc.
Arno Geneva Study Bible

For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our (i) eyes are dim. (i) With weeping.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 a...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

this: ie. this sin. these things: i.e. loss of king, country, possessions, and liberties.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 ).
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 tha...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

For this.. for these things ] loss of nationality and present distress respectively. 19-22. A final appeal to Jehovah to remove Zion's reproach...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 hor...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 r...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 th...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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, t...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 a...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Unchangeableness of God; Prayer for Mercy and Grace. B. C. 588....
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:17 . How depressing is the conviction of personal sin. For this our heart has become faint. Many sorrows had...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with...
The Biblical Illustrator

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 overt...
The Biblical Illustrator

For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim. Zion’s sufferings 1. The best are exposed to sorrow. That the best are not out...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance....
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Plea for the Renewal of Jehovah's Love
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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...

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

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 5:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 5:17