17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
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Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-22)Here, I. The people of God express the deep concern they had for the ruins of the temple, more than for any other of their calamities; the interests of God’s house lay nearer their hearts than those of their own ( Lam. 5:17 , 18 ): For this our heart is faint , and sinks under the load of its own heaviness; for these things our eyes are dim , and our sight is gone, as is usual in a deliquium, or f…
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