Klagelieder 3:51

51 Mein Auge frißt mir das Leben weg um die Töchter meiner Stadt.

Klagelieder 3:51 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:51

Mine eye affecteth mine heart
Seeing the desolation of his country; the ruins of the city and temple of Jerusalem; and the multitudes of those that were slain, and carried captive; and the distresses the rest were in; this affected his heart, and filled it with grief; as his heart also affected his eyes, and caused them to run down in rivers of water, as before expressed; or, as the Targum,

``the weeping of mine eyes is the occasion of hurt to my soul or life;''

his excessive weeping endangered his life: because of all the daughters of my city;
not Anathoth, his native place, but Jerusalem; so the Targum,

``of Jerusalem my city.''

The meaning is, that his heart was affected at seeing the ruin of the inhabitants of Jerusalem; or of the towns and cities round about it, which that was the metropolis of. Some, as Jarchi, render it, "more than all the daughters of my city" ^F16; his heart was more affected with those calamities than those of the most tender sex, even than any or all of them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 (yrye twnb lkm) "supra cunctas filias civitatis meae"; so some in Vatablus; and Jarchi.

Klagelieder 3:51 In-Context

49 Meine Augen fließen und können nicht ablassen; denn es ist kein Aufhören da,

50 bis der HERR vom Himmel herabschaue uns sehe darein.

51 Mein Auge frißt mir das Leben weg um die Töchter meiner Stadt.

52 Meine Feinde haben mich gehetzt wie einen Vogel ohne Ursache; {~}

53 sie haben mein Leben in einer Grube fast umgebracht und Steine auf mich geworfen;