Lamentations 3:49

Ayin

49 My eyes overflow unceasingly, without end,[a]

Lamentations 3:49 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:49

Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not
From weeping, as the Targum: the prophet was continually weeping; the distresses of his people were always uppermost in his mind; and which so affected him, that it drew tears from his eyes, which constantly trickled down his cheeks: without any intermission;
or, "without intermissions" F14; there were no stops or pauses in his grief, and in the expressions of it: or it may be rendered, "because [there were] no intermissions" F15; that is, of the miseries of his people; so Jarchi,

``because there were no changes and passing away;''
that is of evils; and to the same purpose the Targum,
``because there is none that intermits my distress, and speaks comforts to me.''

FOOTNOTES:

F14 (twgph Nyam) "a non intermissionibus", Montanus, Calvin; "sine intervallis", Cocceius.
F15 "Eo quod nullae sunt intermissiones", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Tigurine version.

Lamentations 3:49 In-Context

47 We have experienced panic and pitfall, devastation and destruction.
48 My eyes flow with streams of tears because of the destruction of my dear people.
49 My eyes overflow unceasingly, without end,
50 until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees.
51 My eyes bring me grief because of [the fate of] all the women in my city.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Lm 1:16; 2:11; Jr 9:1,18
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