Lamentations 2:18

Their lev cried unto Adonoi: 1 O Chomat Bat Tziyon, 1 let tears run down like a river yomam valailah; 1 give thyself no relief; 1 let not thine eye rest. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

In Context

17Hashem hath done that which He had devised; 1 He hath fulfilled His word 1 that He decreed in the yemai kedem; 1 He hath overthrown, and hath not pitied, 1 and He hath caused thine oyev to gloat over thee, 1 He hath exalted the keren of thine adversaries. 1

19Arise, cry out balailah; 1 in the beginning of the night watches 1 pour out thine lev like mayim 1 before the face of Adonoi; 1 lift up thy hands to Him 1 for the nefesh of thy ollelim, 1 that faint for hunger on every street corner. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 119:145I cried with my kol lev; 1 hear me, Hashem; I will keep Thy chukkim. 1

Jeremiah 4:31For I have heard a kol (outcry) like that of a woman in travail, 1 and in labor pain like that of her that bringeth forth her first child, 1 the voice of Bat Tziyon, that waileth, 1 that stretcheth out her hands, saying: 1 Oy nah li (Woe is me now)! For my nefesh 1 is weary because of murderers.

Jeremiah 9:17And let them make haste, 1 and take up a nehi (lamentation) for us, 1 that our eyes may run down with dimah (tears), 1 and our eyelids gush out with mayim. 1

Jeremiah 14:17Therefore thou shalt say this davar unto them: 1 Let mine eyes run down with tears 1 lailah and yomam, and let them not cease: 1 for the Betulat Bat Ami is broken 1 with a shever gadol (great calamity), 1 with a severe wound. 1

Lamentations 1:16For these things I weep; 1 mine eye, mine eye runneth down with mayim, 1 because the Menachem (comforter) 1 that should refresh my nefesh is far from me; 1 my children are desolate, 1 because the enemy hath prevailed. 1

Lamentations 3:48Mine eye runneth down with streams of mayim 1 for the destruction of Bat Ami. 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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