Lamentations 5:17

17 Because of all this our heart is sick; because of these things our glance is dark.

Lamentations 5:17 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 5:17

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 for those distresses and calamities they have brought upon us before mentioned; or for the desolation of Zion, more especially, after expressed; and so the Targum,

``for this house of the sanctuary, which is desolate, our heart is weak:''
for these [things] our eyes are dim;
or "darkened" F2 almost blinded with weeping; can scarcely see out of them; or as persons in a swoon; for dimness of sight usually attends faintness of spirit.
FOOTNOTES:

F2 (wkvx) "contenebrati sunt", V. L. "obtenebrati", Pagninus, Montanus, Calvin, Cocceius.

Lamentations 5:17 In-Context

15 Joy has left our heart; our dancing has changed into lamentation.
16 The crown has fallen off our head. We are doomed because we have sinned.
17 Because of all this our heart is sick; because of these things our glance is dark.
18 Mount Zion, now deserted— only jackals walk on it now!
19 But you, LORD, will rule forever; your throne lasts from one generation to the next.
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