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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Lamentations 5:17

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 finding its expression in tears.

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See also Lamentations 5:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IS FAINT ... - Or, has become “faint” - have become “dim.” “For this,” i. e. for the loss of our crown etc....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 5 THE PRAYER OF HOPE The lamentations end with a prayer: “Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; consider and behold our reproach.” It is the prayer of confession and of hope, which reaches t...

  • 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 an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It may...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THIS: ie. this sin. THESE THINGS: i.e. loss of king, country, possessions, and liberties....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX A PENITENT NATION Lamentations 5:1-22 The form of the fifth poem differs in at least two respects from the four which precede it. First, this poem is not in the acrostic form. But...

  • 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 - (; )....

  • 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 than the others, with no trace of vindictiveness. The poe...

  • 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. The book closes with a majestic apostrophe to Jehova...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 5 JEREMIAH IS PRAYING. V1 Remember, *Lord, the suffering that has come upon us. Look down and see our shame....

  • 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 horrors named in Lamentations 5:8....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עַל ־זֶ֗ה הָיָ֤ה דָוֶה֙ לִבֵּ֔נוּ עַל ־אֵ֖לֶּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    SIN AND SHAME Lamentations 5:11 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 preceding p...

  • 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 the actual desolation, telling of the affliction o...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our (i) eyes are dim. (i) With weeping....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Dim, the natural consequence of extreme want, 1 Kings xiv. 27._...

  • 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 their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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 Prophet, n...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The prophet can now present the whole affliction of the people to God, as an object of compassion and mercy. This is an onward step in the path of these deep exercises of heart. He is at peace with Go...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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, they are so many, so great, and so aggravated; or for...

  • 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 are sin sick even at heart; our sins are as so many d...

  • 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 we are almost blind with weeping. _Because of the mou...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    17-22 The people of God express deep concern for the ruins of the temple, more than for any other of their calamities. But whatever changes there are on earth, God is still the same, and remains for...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Lamentations 5:17 heart H3820 faint H1739 eyes H5869 dim H2821 (H8804) our heart - Lamentations 1:13,...

  • 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 dim with weeping. Life had become a burden, full of...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Lamentation of the state of Judah in captivity. Supplications for the return of mercy. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: All our woes are owing to our own sin and folly, and God is th...

  • 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 hope in the latter day. Psalms 85; Hosea 3. The insu...

  • 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 of the reach of misery, or that there is no outward ca...

  • 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 overthrown from among them. (1) Reasons. (A) It bringeth...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 5:1 Restore Us to Yourself, O Lord. This concluding chapter is the community’s plea for restoration. It includes an opening petition (v....

  • The 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 surged over them and exhausted the faculty of external an...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 5:1 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 5:2...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Fifth lamentation: Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans, fatherless, our mothers are...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 28:65; Ezekiel 21:15; Ezekiel 21:7; Isaiah 1:5; Isaiah

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