LAM 5:17 Parallel Verse View

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Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Περὶ τούτου ἐγενήθη ὀδύνη, ὀδυνηρὰ ἡ καρδία ἡμῶν, περὶ τούτου ἐσκότασαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ ἡμῶν.
(Peri toutou egenaʸthaʸ odunaʸ, odunaʸra haʸ kardia haʸmōn, peri toutou eskotasan hoi ofthalmoi haʸmōn. )

BrTr For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.

ULT On account of this, our hearts have become sick;
⇔ on account of these things, our eyes grow dim.

UST We are tired and discouraged,
⇔ and we cannot see well because our eyes are full of tears.

BSB ⇔ Because of this, our hearts are faint;
⇔ because of these, our eyes grow dim—

OEB For this is our heart turned faint,
⇔ For these things our eyes are grown dim–

WEBBE For this our heart is faint.
⇔ For these things our eyes are dim:

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Because of this, our hearts are sick;
⇔ because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears.

LSV Our heart has been sick for this,
Our eyes have been dim for these.

FBV Because of all this, we're sick at heart; because of all these things, we can hardly look;[fn]

5:17 “Hardly look”: whether this is because of the appalling sights or because of the many tears is unclear.

T4T We [SYN] are tired and discouraged [IDM],
⇔ and we cannot see well because our eyes are full of tears.

LEB • because of these, our eyes have become dim.

BBE Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;

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

ASV For this our heart is faint;
⇔ For these things our eyes are dim;

DRA Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,

YLT For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.

Drby For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,

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

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

KJB-1769 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

KJB-1611 For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dimme.

Bshps Therefore our heart is full of heauinesse, and our eyes dimme.

Gnva Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,
(Therefore our heart is heavy for these things, our eyes are dim, )

Cvdl Therfore oure hert is full of heuynesse, & oure eyes dymme:
(Therefore our heart is full of heuynesse, and our eyes dymme:)

Wycl Therfor oure herte is maad soreuful, therfor oure iyen ben maad derk.
(Therefore our heart is made soreuful, therefore our eyes been made derk.)

Luth Darum ist auch unser Herz betrübt, und unsere Augen sind finster worden
(Therefore is also unser heart betrübt, and unsere Augen are dark worden)

ClVg Propterea mœstum factum est cor nostrum; ideo contenebrati sunt oculi nostri,
(That's_why mœstum done it_is heart nostrum; ideo contenebrati are oculi nostri, )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

(Occurrence 0) For this our heart has become sick

(Some words not found in UHB: on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in this it_became faint heart,our on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in these grow_dim eyes,our )

The “heart” represents a person’s emotions. This speaks of a person being discouraged as if their emotions were sick. Alternate translation: “Because of this we are discouraged” (See also: figs-metaphor)

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

(Occurrence 0) for these things our eyes grow dim

(Some words not found in UHB: on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in this it_became faint heart,our on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in these grow_dim eyes,our )

This means that they have a hard time seeing because they are crying. Alternate translation: “and we can hardly see because our eyes are full of tears”

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