Lamentations 2:18

Overview - Lamentations 2
Jeremiah laments the misery of Jerusalem.
20 He complains thereof to God.
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Lamentations 2:18  (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.
 


heart
Psalms 119:145 ; Isaiah 26:16 Isaiah 26:17 ; Hosea 7:14

O wall
8 ; Habakkuk 2:11

let tears
Lamentations 1:2 Lamentations 1:16 Lamentations 3:48 Lamentations 3:49 Psalms 119:136 ; Jeremiah 4:31 ; Jeremiah 9:1 Jeremiah 9:17 Jeremiah 9:18 13:17 14:17

the apple
{Bath ayin,} which sometimes means the pupil of the eye, seems here to denote tears, the produce of the eye; and therefore elegantly termed the daughter of the eye.