Lamentations 3:51
My eye affects my soul, || Because of all the daughters of my city.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
In Context
50Until YHWH looks and sees from the heavens,
52Hunting—my enemies have hunted me without cause like the bird.
Cross References
Genesis 44:34for how do I go up to my father, and the youth not with me? Lest I look on the evil which finds my father.”
Jeremiah 4:19My bowels, my bowels! I am pained [in] the walls of my heart, || My heart makes a noise for me, I am not silent, || For I have heard the voice of a horn, || O my soul—a shout of battle!
Jeremiah 14:16And the people to whom they are prophesying are cast into out-places of Jerusalem, because of the famine and the sword, and they have none burying them—them, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters—and I have poured out their evil on them.
Jeremiah 19:9And I have caused them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and they each eat the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the constriction with which their enemies constrict them, and those seeking their life.”
Lamentations 2:21Lain on the earth [in] out-places have young and old, || My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword, || You have slain in a day of Your anger, || You have slaughtered—You have not pitied.
Luke 19:41And when He came near, having seen the city, He wept over 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 →