Lamentations 3:49
My eye pours down, and does not cease, without any intermission,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
In Context
48My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
50till LORD looks down, and beholds from heaven.
Cross References
Psalms 77:2In the day of my trouble I sought LORD. My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not. My soul refused to be comforted.
Lamentations 1:16For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My sons are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:43-55
Complaining to God. ( b. c. 588.) 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. 43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of… Read the whole commentary →