Lamentations 5:17

17 propterea maestum factum est cor nostrum ideo contenebrati sunt oculi nostri

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.

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Lamentations 5:17 In-Context

15 defecit gaudium cordis nostri versus est in luctu chorus noster

16 cecidit corona capitis nostri vae nobis quia peccavimus

17 propterea maestum factum est cor nostrum ideo contenebrati sunt oculi nostri

18 propter montem Sion quia disperiit vulpes ambulaverunt in eo

19 tu autem Domine in aeternum permanebis solium tuum in generatione et generatione