Yēlìmǐāigē 3:51

51 Yīn wǒ bĕn chéng de zhòng mín , wǒde yǎn , shǐ wǒde xīn shāng tòng .

Yēlìmǐāigē 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.

Yēlìmǐāigē 3:51 In-Context

49 Wǒde yǎn duō duō liú leì , zǒng bú zhǐxī ,

50 Zhí dĕng Yēhéhuá chuí gù , cóng tiān guānkàn .

51 Yīn wǒ bĕn chéng de zhòng mín , wǒde yǎn , shǐ wǒde xīn shāng tòng .

52 Wú gù yǔ wǒ wèi chóu de zhuībī wǒ , xiàng zhuī qiāo niǎo yíyàng .

53 Tāmen shǐ wǒde méng zaì laó yù zhōng duàn jué , bīng jiāng yī kuaì shítou pāo zaì wǒ shēnshang .