Lamentations 2:11

My eyes have failed from their tears; my stomach churns; 1 my inner parts are poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, 1 children and infants faint in the streets of the city. 1

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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 sit on the ground in silence. 1 They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. 1 The virgins of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground. 1

12They say to their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” 1 as they faint like a wounded man in the streets of the city, 1 their lives are poured out on the bosom of their mothers. 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 30:4Then David and the people that were with him raised their voices and wept until they had no more power to weep.

Psalms 6:7My eyes grow dim from grief; 1 they grow weak because of all my adversaries. 1

Psalms 31:9Have mercy upon me, Yahweh, for I am in distress; 1 my eyes grow weary with grief with my soul and my body. 1

Isaiah 22:4Therefore I said, “Do not look at me, I will weep bitterly; 1 do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.” 1

Isaiah 51:20Your sons have fainted; they lie at every street corner, like an antelope in a net; 1 they are filled with the anger of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God. 1

Jeremiah 8:19Behold! The screaming voice of the daughter of my people from a land far away! Is Yahweh not in Zion? 1 Is her king no longer there? Why then do they provoke me to anger with their carved figures and their worthless foreign idols? 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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