Lamentations 3:51
Mine eyes breaketh my heart, because of all the daughters of my citie.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
In Context
50O Lorde, when wylt thou looke downe from heauen and consider?
52Mine enemies hunted me out sharply like a byrde, yea & that without a cause.
Cross References
Genesis 44:34For howe can I go vp to my father, if the ladde be not with me? vnlesse I woulde see the wretchednesse that shall come on my father.
Lamentations 2:21Young and olde lye thorowe the streetes vpon the grounde, my maydens and young men are slayne with the sworde, whom thou in the day of thy wrathfull indignation hast put to death, yea euen thou hast put them to death, and not spared them.
Luke 19:41And when he was come neare, he behelde the citie, and wept on 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 →