Lamentations 3:49
Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
In Context
48Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
50Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.
Cross References
Psalms 77:2I cried to the Lord with my voice; to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.
Lamentations 1:16Ain. Therefore do I weep, and my eyes run down with water: because the comforter, the relief of my soul, is far from me: my children are desolate because the enemy hath 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 →