Lamentations 3:51
My eyes bring my soul grief, because of all the daughters of my city.TZADE
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
In Context
50until the Lord looks down and sees from heaven.
52They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
Cross References
Genesis 44:34For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me?-lest I see the evil that will come on my father."
Jeremiah 4:19My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Jeremiah 14:16The people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them-them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness on them."
Jeremiah 19:9I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them."'
Lamentations 2:21The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets;my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword.You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, without pity.TAV
Luke 19:41When he drew near, he saw the city and 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 →