Lamentations 3:48
Whole riuers of water gushe out of mine eyes for the hurt of my people:
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
In Context
47Feare and pit is come vpon vs, yea deceipt and destruction.
49Myne eyes runne and cannot ceasse, for there is no rest:
Cross References
Lamentations 1:16Therfore do I weepe, and mine eyes gushe out of water: for the comfort that shoulde quicken me is farre fro me, my children are driuen away: for why? the enemie hath gotten the vpper hande.
Lamentations 2:18Their heart cryed vnto the Lorde, O thou citie of the daughter Sion: let thy teares runne downe like a riuer day and night, rest not, and let not the apple of thyne eye leaue of.
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 →