Lamentations 3:49

49 Mine eye was tormented, and was not still; for no rest was. (My eyes were tormented, and were not still; for there was no rest,)

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 Inward dread and snare is made to us, prophecy and defouling. (Inward fear and snare be made upon us, and prophecy and defiling.)
48 Mine eyes led down partings of waters, for the defouling of the daughter of my people.
49 Mine eye was tormented, and was not still; for no rest was. (My eyes were tormented, and were not still; for there was no rest,)
50 Until the Lord beheld, and saw from heavens. (until the Lord beheld, and saw from heaven.)
51 Mine eye robbed my soul in all the daughters of my city. (My heart is grieved at what befell all the daughters of my city.)
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