Lamentations 3:51
Mine eye affecteth mine nefesh 1 because of all the banot of my city. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
In Context
50Till Hashem look down, and behold from Shomayim. 1
52Mine enemies hunted me down, 1 like a tzippor (bird), without cause. 1
Cross References
Genesis 44:34For how shall I go up to Avi, and the na'ar be not with me? Lest I see the rah that would overtake Avi.
Jeremiah 4:19My innards, my innards! 1 I am pained at my very lev; 1 my lev is pounding in me; 1 I cannot keep silent, 1 because thou hast heard, O my nefesh, the kol shofar (sound of the shofar), 1 the teru'at milchamah (battle alarm of war). 1
Jeremiah 14:16And HaAm to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Yerushalayim because of the ra'av (famine) and the cherev; and they shall have none to bury them — them, their nashim, nor their banim, nor their banot; for I will pour out their ra'ah (wickedness, disaster) upon them. 1
Jeremiah 19:9And I will cause them to eat the basar of their banim and the basar of their banot, and they shall eat every one the basar of his re'a in the siege and desperation, wherewith their oyevim, and they that seek their nefesh, shall drive them to despair.
Lamentations 2:21The na'ar and the zaken lie 1 in the dust of the streets; 1 my betulot and my bochurim 1 are fallen by the cherev; 1 Thou hast slain them in the Day of Thy Wrath; 1 Thou hast slaughtered, and not pitied. 1
Luke 19:41And as he came near, having seen the Ir (City) [of Yerushalayim], Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach wept over it, + 19:41 Isa 22:4
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 →