耶利米哀歌 3:51

51 因 我 本 城 的 众 民 ， 我 的 眼 ， 使 我 的 心 伤 痛 。

耶利米哀歌 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.

耶利米哀歌 3:51 In-Context

49 我 的 眼 多 多 流 泪 ， 总 不 止 息 ，

50 直 等 耶 和 华 垂 顾 ， 从 天 观 看 。

51 因 我 本 城 的 众 民 ， 我 的 眼 ， 使 我 的 心 伤 痛 。

52 无 故 与 我 为 仇 的 追 逼 我 ， 像 追 雀 鸟 一 样 。

53 他 们 使 我 的 命 在 牢 狱 中 断 绝 ， 并 将 一 块 石 头 抛 在 我 身 上 。