Lamentations 2:11

Mine eyes do fail from weepings, 1 my insides are troubled, 1 empty and poured upon ha'aretz, 1 for the destruction of Bat Ami; 1 because the olel and the infant 1 swoon in the rechovot of the city. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 Ziknei Bat Tziyon sit upon the ground, 1 and keep silence; 1 they have cast up aphar upon their heads; 1 they have girded themselves with sackcloth; 1 the Betulot Yerushalayim hang down 1 their heads to the ground. 1

12They say to their imahot: 1 Where is grain and yayin? 1 Say they when they swooned like the wounded 1 in the rechovot Ir, 1 when their nefesh ebbed away 1 into the kheyk imahot of them. 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 30:4Then Dovid and HaAm that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more ko'ach to weep.

Psalms 6:7I am weary with my groaning; 1 all the lailah flood I my mittah with weeping; 1 I water my couch with my tears. 1

Psalms 31:9And hast not shut me up into the yad of the oyev (enemy); 1 Thou hast set my feet in a merkhav 1 (large place, spacious or broad place). 1

Isaiah 22:4Therefore said I, 1 Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, 1 labor not to comfort me, 1 because of the shod (catastrophe) of Bat Ami. 1

Isaiah 51:20Thy banim have fainted, they lie at the rosh of all the streets, 1 like a wild bull in a net; 1 they are full of the chamat Hashem, 1 the rebuke of thy G-d. 1

Jeremiah 8:19Hinei, the sound of the cry of the Bat Ami 1 from eretz markhakim (a land of places far away): 1 is Hashem not in Tziyon? Is her Melech not in her? 1 Why have they provoked Me to anger with their pesilim (idols), 1 and with alien vanities (futile foreign g-ds)? 1

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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