Klagelieder 3:49

49 Mein Auge ergießt sich ruhelos und ohne Rast,

Klagelieder 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.

Klagelieder 3:49 In-Context

47 Grauen und Grube sind über uns gekommen, Verwüstung und Zertrümmerung.
48 Mit Wasserbächen rinnt mein Auge wegen der Zertrümmerung der Tochter meines Volkes.
49 Mein Auge ergießt sich ruhelos und ohne Rast,
50 bis Jehova vom Himmel herniederschaue und dareinsehe.
51 Mein Auge schmerzt mich wegen aller Töchter meiner Stadt.
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