Lamentations 3:51
Mine eye dealeth severely with my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
In Context
50Until Yahweh out of the heavens shall look forth, and see,
52They, have laid snares, for me as a bird, who are mine enemies without cause:
Cross References
Genesis 44:34For how can I go up unto my father, should the lad, not be with me? lest I look on the calamity, that shall find out my father,
Jeremiah 4:19My bowels! My bowels! I am pained in the walls of my heart My heart beateth aloud to me I cannot be still! For the sound of a horn, hast thou heard O my soul, The loud shout of war!
Jeremiah 14:16And the people to whom they have been prophesying shall be getting cast out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword, and of there being none to give burial unto them, them, their wives, nor their sons nor their daughters,—So will I pour out upon them their own wickedness.
Jeremiah 19:9And I will suffer them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, yea every one—the flesh of his friend, will they eat,—in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith, their enemies, and they who seek their lives, will straiten them.
Lamentations 2:21Youth and elder, have lain down on the ground in the streets, My virgins and my young men, have fallen by the sword,—Thou hast slain, in the day of thine anger, Thou hast slaughtered, hast not spared!
Luke 19:41And, when he drew near, beholding the city, he wept over it, saying—
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 →