Lamentations 3:51
Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
In Context
50Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.
52Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.
Cross References
Genesis 44:34For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father.
Jeremiah 4:19My bowels, my bowels are in pain, the senses of my heart are troubled within me, I will not hold my peace, for my soul hath heard the sound of the trumpet, the cry of battle.
Jeremiah 14:16And the people to whom they prophecy, shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the fanmine and the sword, and there shall be none to bury them: they and their wives, their sons and their daughters, and I will pour out their wickedness upon them.
Jeremiah 19:9And I will feed them with the flesh of their sons, and with the flesh of their daughters: and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege, and in the distress wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives shall straiten them.
Lamentations 2:21Sin. The child and the old man lie without on the ground: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain them in the day of thy wrath: thou hast killed, and shewn them no pity.
Luke 19:41And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying:
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 →