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Lamentations 3:51
51What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city.
Lamentations 3:51 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
- English Standard Version (ESV)my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the daughters of my city.
- New King James Version (NKJV)My eyes bring suffering to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.
- New Living Translation (NLT)My heart is breaking over the fate of all the women of Jerusalem.
Context of Lamentations 3:51
49My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief, 50until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees. What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city. 52Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird. 53They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me;
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עֵינִי֙ עֽוֹלְלָ֣ה לְנַפְשִׁ֔י מִכֹּ֖ל בְּנ֥וֹת עִירִֽי׃ סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Lamentations 3:51
- Genesis 44:34How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery that would come on my father.”
- 1 Samuel 30:3When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.
- Jeremiah 4:19Oh, my anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain. Oh, the agony of my heart! My heart pounds within me, I cannot keep silent. For I have heard the sound of the trumpet; I have heard the battle cry.
- Jeremiah 14:18If I go into the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I go into the city, I see the ravages of famine. Both prophet and priest have gone to a land they know not.’ ”
- Luke 19:41As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it
- Lamentations 1:18“The Lord is righteous, yet I rebelled against his command. Listen, all you peoples; look on my suffering. My young men and young women have gone into exile.
- Lamentations 2:21“Young and old lie together in the dust of the streets; my young men and young women have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered them without pity.
- Lamentations 5:11Women have been violated in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.
- Jeremiah 11:22therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.
- Jeremiah 14:16And the people they are prophesying to will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them, their wives, their sons and their daughters. I will pour out on them the calamity they deserve.
- Jeremiah 19:9I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh because their enemies will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.’
Commentaries on Lamentations 3:51
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 51Mine 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 48-51Verses 48-51 The deep sympathy of the prophet, which pours itself forth in abundant tears over the distress of his people. Lamentations 3:51 Or, “Mine eye” causeth pain to my soul, i. e. maketh my soul ache, because of the sad fate of the maidens (Lamentations 1:4, Lamentations 1:18, ).Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 42-54Verses 42-54 The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relief and succour from any but the Lord.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 48-66The author emphasizes how cruel the enemies are and cries out to the Lord for help.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 49-5149-51. without ... intermission--or else, "because there is no intermission" [Piscator], namely, of my miseries.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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