Lamentaciones 3:51

51 Se me destroza el corazón
por el destino de todas las mujeres de Jerusalén.

Lamentaciones 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.

Lamentaciones 3:51 In-Context

49 Mis lágrimas corren sin cesar;
no pararán

50 hasta que el Señor
mire
desde el cielo y vea.

51 Se me destroza el corazón
por el destino de todas las mujeres de Jerusalén.

52 Mis enemigos, a quienes nunca les hice daño,
me persiguen como a un pájaro.

53 Me arrojaron a un hoyo
y dejaron caer piedras sobre mí.