Cross references

Lamentations 5:17

Because of this, our hearts are faint;

because of these, our eyes grow dim—

Lamentations 5:17 BSB

Lamentations 5:17 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 6:7 (5 votes) and Isaiah 1:5 (5 votes). 20 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Leviticus 26 to Zephaniah 1.

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Which verses does Lamentations 5:17 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Psalm 6:75 votes

    My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.

  2. Isaiah 1:55 votes

    Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.

  3. Job 17:74 votes

    My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.

  4. My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

  5. I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”

  6. As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.

  7. Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

  8. Psalm 31:92 votes

    Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.

  9. Psalm 69:32 votes

    I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

  10. My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

  11. Micah 6:132 votes

Which verses point to Lamentations 5:17?

The 10 strongest of 20.