Lamentations 5:17

For this our heart is faint,.... Our spirits sink; we are ready to swoon and die away; either for this, that we have sinned; because of our sins, they are so many, so great, and so aggravated; or for…

Is faint ... - Or, has become “faint” - have become “dim.” “For this,” i. e. for the loss of our crown etc.

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…