Yēlìmǐāigē 2:11

11 Wǒ yǎn zhōng liú leì , yǐzhì shī míng , wǒde xīncháng rǎoluàn , gān dǎn tú dì , dōu yīn wǒ zhòng mín zāo huǐmiè , yòu yīn háitóng hé chī nǎi de zaì chéng neì jiē shang fā hūn .

Yēlìmǐāigē 2:11 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 2:11

Mine eyes do fail with tears
According to Aben Ezra, everyone of the elders before mentioned said this; but rather they are the words of the Prophet Jeremiah, who had wept his eyes dry, or rather blind, on account of the calamities of his people; though he himself obtained liberty and enlargement by means thereof: my bowels are troubled;
all his inward parts were distressed: my liver is poured upon the earth;
his gall bladder, which lay at the bottom of his liver, broke, and he cast it up, and poured it on the earth; see ( Job 16:13 ) ; and all this was for the destruction of the daughter of my people;
or, the "breach" of them ^F20; their civil and church state being destroyed and broke to shivers; and for the ruin of the several families of them: particularly because the children and sucklings swoon in the streets of the city;
through famine, for want of bread, with those that could eat it; and for want of the milk of their mothers and nurses, who being starved themselves could not give it; and hence the poor infants fainted and swooned away; which was a dismal sight, and heart melting to the prophet.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 (rbv le) "propter contritionem", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius; "propter confractionem", Piscator; "propter fractionem", Cocceius.

Yēlìmǐāigē 2:11 In-Context

9 Xī \'ān de mén dōu xiàn rù dì neì . zhǔ jiāng tāde mén shuān huǐhuaì , zhé duàn . tāde jūnwáng hé shǒulǐng luō zaì méiyǒu lǜfǎ de liè guó zhōng . tāde xiānzhī bùdé jiàn Yēhéhuá de yìxiàng .

10 Xī \'ān chéng de zhǎnglǎo zuò zaì dì shang mò mò wú shēng . tāmen yáng qǐ chéntǔ luō zaì tóu shang , yào shù má bù . Yēlùsǎlĕng de chǔnǚ chuí tóu zhì dì .

11 Wǒ yǎn zhōng liú leì , yǐzhì shī míng , wǒde xīncháng rǎoluàn , gān dǎn tú dì , dōu yīn wǒ zhòng mín zāo huǐmiè , yòu yīn háitóng hé chī nǎi de zaì chéng neì jiē shang fā hūn .

12 Nàshí , tāmen zaì chéng neì jiē shang fā hūn , hǎoxiàng shòushāng de , zaì mǔqin de huái lǐ , jiāngyào sàngméng . duì mǔqin shuō , gǔ jiǔ zaì nǎli ne .

13 Yēlùsǎlĕng de mín nǎ , wǒ kĕ yòng shénme xiàng nǐ zhèngmíng ne . wǒ kĕ yòng shénme yǔ nǐ xiāng bǐ ne . Xī \'ān de mín nǎ , wǒ kĕ ná shénme hé nǐ bǐjiào , hǎo ānwèi nǐ ne . yīnwei nǐde liè kǒu dà rú hǎi , shuí néng yīzhì nǐ ne .