Lamentations 2:11

Mine eyes have failed with tears, 1 My heart is troubled, 1 My glory is cast down to the ground, 1 For the destruction of the daughter of my people; 1 While the infant and suckling swoon 1 In the streets of the city. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

In Context

10The elders of the daughter of Zion 1 Have sat upon the ground, 1 They have kept silence: 1 They have cast up dust upon their heads; 1 They have girded themselves with sackcloth: 1 They have brought down to the ground 1 The chief virgins in Jerusalem. 1

12They said to their mothers, 1 Where is corn and wine? 1 While they fainted like wounded men 1 In the streets of the city, 1 While their souls were poured out 1 Into their mother’s bosom. 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 30:4And David and his men lifted up their voice, and wept till there was no longer any power within them to weep.

Psalms 6:7I am wearied with my groaning; 1 I shall wash my bed every night; 1 I shall water my couch with my tears. 1

Psalms 31:9Be ye not as horse and mule, which have no understanding: 1 But thou must constrain their jaws with bit and curb, 1 Lest they should come nigh to thee. 1

Isaiah 22:4Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the breach of the daughter of my people.

Isaiah 51:20Thy sons are the perplexed ones, that sleep at the top of every street as a half-boiled beet; they that are full of the anger of the Lord, caused to faint by the Lord God.

Jeremiah 8:19Behold, there is a sound of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off: Is not the Lord in Zion? is there not a king there? because they have provoked me with their graven images, and with strange vanities.

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 2:11-22

Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. 12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn… Read the whole commentary →

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