Lamentations 2:18

Their heart cried out to the Lord, 1 walls of the daughter of Zion! Make your tears flow down like a river day and night. 1 Give yourself no relief, your eyes no relief. 1

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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

17Yahweh has done what he planned to do. He has fulfilled his word. 1 He has overthrown you without pity, 1 for he has permitted the enemy to rejoice over you; he has lifted up the horn of your enemies. 1

19Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches! 1 Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. 1 Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children who faint with hunger at the corner of every street.” 1

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Cross References

Psalms 119:145I cried out with my whole heart, “Answer me, Yahweh, 1 I will keep your statutes. 1

Jeremiah 4:31So I hear the sound of anguish, distress as in the birth of a firstborn child, the sound of the daughter of Zion. She is gasping for breath. She spreads out her hands, 'Woe to me! I am fainting because of these murderers.'”

Jeremiah 9:17Yahweh of hosts says this, “Think about this: Summon 1 funeral singers; let them come. Send out for women skilled at lamenting; let them come. 1

Jeremiah 14:17Say this word to them: 'Let my eyes flow with tears, night and day. 1 Do not let them stop, for there will be a great collapse of the virgin daughter of my people— 1 a great and incurable wound. 1

Lamentations 1:16For these things I weep, my eyes overflow with tears; 1 for a comforter is far from me, one who restores my life. 1 My children are desolate because the enemy has conquered me. 1

Lamentations 3:48My eyes flow with streams of tears because my people are destroyed. 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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