Lamentations 3:49

49 "The tears stream from my eyes, an artesian well of tears,

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've been to hell and back. We've nowhere to turn, nowhere to go.
48 Rivers of tears pour from my eyes at the smashup of my dear people.
49 "The tears stream from my eyes, an artesian well of tears,
50 Until you, God, look down from on high, look and see my tears.
51 When I see what's happened to the young women in the city, the pain breaks my heart.
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