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Mga Panaghoy 3:51
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
eye: Genesis 44:34, 1 Samuel 30:3, 1 Samuel 30:4, Jeremiah 4:19-21, Jeremiah 14:18, Luke 19:41-44
mine heart: Heb. my soul
because of all: or, more than all
the daughters: Lamentations 1:18, Lamentations 2:21, Lamentations 5:11, Jeremiah 11:22, Jeremiah 14:16, Jeremiah 19:9
Reciprocal: Nehemiah 2:17 - Ye see Psalms 137:1 - we wept Romans 9:2 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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" p; his heart was more affected with those calamities than those of the most tender sex, even than any or all of them.
p מכל בנות עירי "supra cunctas filias civitatis meae"; so some in Vatablus; and Jarchi.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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, ...).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
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: but they all amount to this.
The daughters of my city. — The villages about Jerusalem.
