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Lamentations 5:17–18

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For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
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From verse 17

  1. Isaiah 1:5Rank 1 from verse 17
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    5¶ Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

  2. Psalms 6:7Rank 2 from verse 17
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    7Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

  3. Job 17:7Rank 3 from verse 17
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    7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

  4. Lamentations 2:11Rank 4 from verse 17
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    11Mine 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.

  5. Isaiah 38:14Rank 5 from verse 17
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    14Like 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.

From verse 18

  1. Micah 3:12Rank 1 from verse 18
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    12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

  2. Jeremiah 9:11Rank 2 from verse 18
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    11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

  3. 1 Kings 9:7–8Rank 3 from verse 18
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    7Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

    8And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?

  4. Isaiah 32:13–14Rank 4 from verse 18
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    13Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

    14Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

  5. Jeremiah 17:3Rank 5 from verse 18
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    3O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.

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Lamentations 5:17

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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COMBINED MEANING

heart

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Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.

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COMBINED MEANING

faint

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1. Weak or failing in heart, spirit, or mind; to lose courage or cease to persevere. 2. Weak, weary, or exhausted in bodily strength; to become weak or exhausted.

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eyes

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The bodily organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, observation, perception, understanding, desire, judgment, estimation, favour, or the presence and view before which something occurs.

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COMBINED MEANING

dim

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Sense 1: Faint or lacking brightness or clarity. Sense 2: To obscure or make less bright.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Lamentations 5:18

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mountain

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Sense 1: A great natural elevation of land or an elevated region. Sense 2: A figure of something lofty or formidable.

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

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desolate

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1. Of a place or land, left empty, uninhabited, waste, ruined, barren, or without former use and fruitfulness. 2. Of a person or people, bereft, forsaken, solitary, or left without help, comfort, family, or support. 3. As a verb, to make empty, waste, ruined, or bereft.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Cawdrey 1604

COMBINED MEANING

foxes

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Sense 1: Wild canine animals noted for craftiness. Sense 2: Used by figure of cunning or destructive persons.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

upon

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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.

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16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

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

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18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

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19Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

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