Lamentations 3:48
Streams of water go down my eye, || For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
In Context
47Fear and a snare has been for us, || Desolation and destruction.
49My eye is poured out, || And does not cease without intermission,
Cross References
Psalms 137:1By rivers of Babylon—There we sat, || Indeed, we wept when we remembered Zion.
Jeremiah 9:1Who makes my head waters, || And my eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, || For the wounded of the daughter of my people.
Jeremiah 13:17And if you do not hear it, || My soul weeps in secret places, because of pride, || Indeed, it weeps and wails, || And the tear comes down my eyes, || For the flock of YHWH has been taken captive.
Lamentations 1:16For these I am weeping, || My eye, my eye, is running down with waters, || For a comforter has been far from me, || Refreshing my soul, || My sons have been desolate, || For mighty has been an enemy.
Lamentations 2:18Their heart has cried to the Lord; O wall of the daughter of Zion, || Cause to go down tears as a stream daily and nightly, do not give rest to yourself, || Do not let the daughter of your eye stand 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 →