Lamentations 5:17

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

Cross-reference

Lamentations 2:11 describes eyes spent with weeping and fainting infants, directly paralleling the dim eyes and faint heart.

Leviticus 26:36 promises faintness of heart as a curse for disobedience; here that curse is realized.

Deuteronomy 28:65 uses the same 'failing of eyes' phrase, linking the lament to the covenant curse for disobedience.

Job 17:7 Parallel

Job 17:7 also says 'mine eye is dim by reason of sorrow,' echoing the same physical expression of grief.

Psalm 6:7 Parallel

Psalm 6:7 describes the eye consumed with grief, a parallel lament over affliction causing dim eyes.

Psalm 31:9 Parallel

Psalm 31:9 has 'mine eye is consumed with grief,' paralleling the dim eyes from sorrow in Lamentations.

Psalm 69:3 Parallel

Psalm 69:3 says 'mine eyes fail while I wait for my God,' similar to the dim eyes from exhaustion and waiting.

Isaiah 1:5 Parallel

Isaiah 1:5 uses the same 'heart faint' imagery for Israel's rebellious state, connecting prophetic diagnosis to lament.

Isaiah 38:14 mentions 'mine eyes fail with looking upward,' a similar expression of physical weakness from distress.

Ezekiel 21:7 prophesies hearts melting and spirits fainting, a direct parallel to the physical collapse here.

Deuteronomy 28:32 says 'thine eyes shall fail with longing' for children taken captive, directly matching the dim-eyed sorrow here.

Psalm 38:10 Parallel

Psalm 38:10 says 'the light of mine eyes is gone from me,' a strong parallel to the dim eyes in Lamentations.

Isaiah 59:9 Parallel

Isaiah 59:9 uses darkness and gloom imagery for despair, matching 'eyes grow dim' — both blame sin for spiritual blindness.

Zephaniah 1:17 says people will walk like the blind due to sin — directly parallels 'eyes grow dim' and distress of heart.

Jeremiah 8:18 expresses a sick heart over disaster, matching the fainting heart in shared anguish.

Ezekiel 21:15 speaks of hearts melting and stumbling under judgment, echoing faintness but with sword imagery.