Lamentations 3:51
My eyes cause me grief because of all the daughters of my city. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
In Context
50until Yahweh from heaven looks down and sees. 1
52I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies; they hunted me without a reason. 1
Cross References
Genesis 44:34For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? I am afraid to see the evil that would come on my father.”
Jeremiah 4:19My heart! My heart! I am in anguish in my heart. My heart is turbulent within me. I cannot keep quiet for I hear the sound of the horn, an alarm for battle.
Jeremiah 14:16Then the people to whom they prophesied will be thrown out in the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword, for there will be no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters—for I will pour out their wickedness on them. 1
Jeremiah 19:9I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters; each man will consume the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the anguish brought on them by their enemies and the ones seeking their lives.”'
Lamentations 2:21Both the young and the old lie on the dust of the streets. 1 My young women and my young men have fallen by the sword; 1 you have slaughtered them without taking pity on them. 1
Luke 19:41When Jesus approached the city, he wept over it,
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 →