Lamentations 3:49

49 My eyes will keep flowing without stopping for a moment

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 Panic and pitfalls have found us, so have devastation and destruction.
48 "Streams of tears run down from my eyes over the ruin of my dear people.
49 My eyes will keep flowing without stopping for a moment
50 until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
51 What I see with my eyes disturbs me deeply because of all the young women in my city.
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