Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Lamentations 3:51
My eye (x) affecteth my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
(x) I am overcome with sore weeping for all my people.
My eye (x) affecteth my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
(x) I am overcome with sore weeping for all my people.
Verse 51. _MINE 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: bu...
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, beca...
CHAPTER 3 THE PROPHET'S SUFFERING AND DISTRESS This chapter is intensely personal. None but Jeremiah could have written these wonderful expressions of sorrow, the sorrows of the people of God into whi...
LAMENTATIONS 3. THE THIRD LAMENT. Here it is the singer that comes chiefly to the front; whereas in Lamentations 3:1 it had been Zion, and in Lamentations 3:2 it was Yahweh. EV hardly puts Lamentation...
MINE HEART. my soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
See intr. note....
_affecteth my soul_ The inflammation of eyes caused by continual weeping, or, better, the sights of misery on which he looks, add to his mental suffering. _the daughters of my city_ either those whose...
AFFECTETH— _Preys upon._...
IV. HIS PERSONAL SUFFERING Lamentations 3:48-54 TRANSLATION (48) With streams of water my eyes flow because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. (49) My eyes flow without ceasing, without...
Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, WITHOUT ANY INTERMISSION - or else, 'because there is no intermission' (Piscator), namely, of my miseries. Verse 50. TILL THE LORD...
ZION'S HOPE IN GOD'S MERCY This third poem is the most elaborate in structure and the most sublime in thought of all. The poet speaks not only for himself, but for the nation. The order of thought is...
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 3 JEREMIAH SPEAKS. In this chapter, the writer speaks on behalf of all God’s people. Much of what he says is true also of the troub...
AFFECTETH. — Better, _harmeth,_ or _causeth grief to._ THE DAUGHTERS OF MY CITY. — The words have been understood (1) of the maidens of Jerusalem (comp. Lamentations 1:4; Lamentations 1:18;...
עֵינִי֙ עֹֽולְלָ֣ה לְ נַפְשִׁ֔י מִ כֹּ֖ל בְּנ
GRIEVING BEFORE GOD Lamentations 3:43 AS might have been expected, the mourning patriot quickly forsakes the patch of sunshine which lights up a few verses of this elegy. But the vision of it has not...
In this central and longest poem, Jeremiah identified himself completely with the experiences of his people. In the first movement, in language which throbs with pain, he described his own sorrows, re...
_Wasted. Literally, "robbed." (Haydock) --- I have felt more for my people than they have themselves. Moral writers often product this text, to shew the dangers of an unguarded glance (Calmet) at wome...
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him....
He had said, that his eye flowed down, and then, that it was like a fountain, from which many streams or rivers flowed: he now adopts another mode of speaking, that his _eyes grieved his soul; _and it...
In chapter 3 we find the language of faith, of sorrowing faith, of the Spirit of Christ in the remnant, on the occasion of the judgment of Jerusalem in which God had dwelt. Before, the prophet (or the...
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 distre...
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. Ver. 51. _Mine eye affecteth my heart._] _Iisdem quibus videmus oculis flemus,_ We see and weep with the same eyes. But Pliny _a...
_Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water_ In this and the three following verses the prophet shows that the misfortunes of his country constituted no small part of his personal affliction. _Mine ey...
CONFESSION OF SIN AND COMPLAINT OVER THE CRUELTY OF THE ENEMIES...
Mine eye affecteth mine heart, literally, "my eye puts an ache upon my soul," the pain of the eye from its ceaseless weeping affecting the soul as well, BECAUSE OF ALL THE DAUGHTERS OF MY CITY, whose...
MINE HEART: _ Heb._ my soul BECAUSE OF ALL: Or, more then all...
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 relie...
The eye and the ear are those organs of the body, by which the soul exerciseth its senses to bring in all objects, whether pleasant or sad, to the understanding to judge of them, according to the judg...
Lamentations 3:51 eyes H5869 suffering H5953 (H8782) soul H5315 daughters H1323 city H5892 eye -...
THE PEOPLE ARE CALLED ON TO SEEK YHWH, AND THEY FACE UP TO THE SITUATION THAT THEY ARE IN WHILST THE PROPHET HIMSELF CONTINUES TO PLEAD FOR THEM (LAMENTATIONS 3:40). The prophet now calls on the peopl...
We are about to read a chapter which is very full of sorrow; while you are listening to it, some of you may be saying, «We are not in that condition.» Well then, be thankful that you are not, and whil...
CONTENTS: Complaint of God's displeasure and comfort to God's people. Appeal to God's justice against persecutors. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Bad as things may be, it is owing to the mer...
The Metre changes here. The letters of the Hebrew alphabet, twenty two in number, begin three hemistichs, which make sixty six verses. It would look better, and read more poetically, if the hemistichs...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 3:1 I Am the Man Who Has Seen Affliction. Chapter Lamentations 3:1 has one speaker, a man who has endured suffering, expe
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 3:51 MY EYES CAUSE ME GRIEF. What he has witnessed saddens the speaker. ⇐...
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— (פ) Lamentations 3:46 present significant intimations of their base condition. ENEMIES making sport of them FEAR AND PITFALLS surrounding them, and the oft-recurring feeling of utt...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 3:1 MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH THAT OF THE
In this third lamentation he begins from the depth of depression and despair. He begins with hopelessness, and hopelessness is always the experience behind depression. Depression is the loss of hope,...
Daniel 9:16; Isaiah 62:6; Isaiah 62:7; Isaiah 63:15; Isaiah 64:1;...