Lamentations 3:51
in Lamentations 3My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
KJV
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
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This verse in Lamentations 3
Commentary
2 notes on this verseMine eye affecteth mine heart - What I see I feel. I see nothing but misery; and I feel, in consequence, nothing but pain. There have been various translations of the original: but they all amount to this. The daughters of my city - The villages about Jerusalem.
This site's exposition
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us
on Lamentations 3:43-51
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied returns to the register of the first two chapters, the corporate voice now describing what the man described of himself. Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through names the hardest complaint of the unit, prayer itself apparently blocked, and thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people states the community's status among the nations in the plainest terms the book uses. The unit closes where much of the book closes, mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people, weeping continuing till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven, grief that keeps speaking rather than resolving into silence.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עֵינִי֙ | ʾeini | eye my | H5869 → | 887 times |
| עֽוֹלְלָ֣ה | ʾolah | it has dealt severely | H5953 → | 20 times |
| לְנַפְשִׁ֔י | lenafshi | to self my | H5315 → | 754 times |
| מִכֹּ֖ל | mikol | from all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| בְּנ֥וֹת | benot | [the] daughters of | H1323 → | 588 times |
| עִירִֽי׃ ס | ʾiri | city my | H5892 → | 1090 times |
עֵינִי֙eye my
ʾeiniH5869 →887 times
עֽוֹלְלָ֣הit has dealt severely
ʾolahH5953 →20 times
לְנַפְשִׁ֔יto self my
lenafshiH5315 →754 times
מִכֹּ֖לfrom all
mikolH3605 →5413 times
בְּנ֥וֹת[the] daughters of
benotH1323 →588 times
עִירִֽי׃ סcity my
ʾiriH5892 →1090 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Lamentations 2:21Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have…
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 36:17
So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Zechariah 11:6
For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king,…
- 2 Chronicles 36:17
Through
Jeremiah 11:22So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Jeremiah 18:21
Through
Jeremiah 19:9I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
it leads to
- Isaiah 9:20
They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own…
- Leviticus 26:29
You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
- Lamentations 4:10
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Deuteronomy 28:53–57
Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict…
- Isaiah 9:20
Through
Lamentations 5:11Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
it leads to
- Isaiah 13:16
Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.
- Isaiah 13:16
Where this verse is studied
No study on the site is anchored to this verse yet.
Also on Lamentations 3: 6 studies that walk through this chapter ▾
- Acrostics: From Aleph to Taw
- The Fruit of the SpiritGalatians 5:22–23 names a singular fruit (karpos, not fruits) with nine visible facets. Gifts are distributed; fruit is unified. Every believer bears the whole fruit. The grammar is the theology.
- Great Is Thy Faithfulness: Lamentations 3:22–24 · MannaFest
- Lamentations — the Study Guide
- The Weeping Prophet — the Confessions of Jeremiah
- The Yoke
About Lamentations
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations.