Lamentations 3:51
in Lamentations 3My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
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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
5 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.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
Second is the compassion of the prophet, due to the sting from interior grief: "My eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the maidens of my city." That is: "my eyes," seeing the depredation upon the earth, "cause me grief." That is, spoiling …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And it is no diminution to any to be much in tears for the sins of sinners and the sufferings of saints; our Lord Jesus was so; for, when he came near, he beheld this same city and wept over it, which the daughters of Jerusalem did not. (2.) She is overwhelmed with fears, not only grieves for what is, but fears worse, and gives up all for gone (
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Mine eye affecteth mine heart,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
eye affecteth mine heart--that is, causeth me grief with continual tears; or, "affecteth my life" (literally, "soul," Margin), that is, my health [GROTIUS]. daughters of . . . city--the towns around, dependencies of Jerusalem, taken by the foe.
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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
About Lamentations
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Lamentations.