Lamentations 3:51
The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
In Context
50Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven.
52They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird;
Cross References
Genesis 44:34For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?
Jeremiah 4:19My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.
Jeremiah 14:16And the people to whom they are prophets will be pushed out dead into the streets of Jerusalem, because there is no food, and because of the sword; and they will have no one to put their bodies into the earth, them or their wives or their sons or their daughters: for I will let loose their evil-doing on them.
Jeremiah 19:9I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.
Lamentations 2:21The young men and the old are stretched on the earth in the streets; my virgins and my young men have been put to the sword: you have sent death on them in the day of your wrath, causing death without pity.
Luke 19:41And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it,
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 →