Lamentations 3:48
With streams of water runneth my eye down, because of the breach of the daughter of my people.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
In Context
47Terror and a snare are come upon us, [with] desolation and breaches.
49My eye trickleth down, and resteth not, without any intermission,
Cross References
Psalms 137:1By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, and we also wept when we remembered Zion.
Jeremiah 9:1(8:23) Oh that one would make my head water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughters of my people!
Jeremiah 13:17But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places because of [your] pride; and my eye shall weep sorely, and run down with tears, because the flock of the Lord is driven away captive.
Lamentations 1:16For these things do I weep; my eye, my eye runneth down with water; because far from me is the comforter that should refresh my soul: my children are in misery, because the enemy hath prevailed.”
Lamentations 2:18Their heart crieth unto the Lord, O thou wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a stream day and night; allow thyself no rest; let not the apple of thy eye be still.
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 →