Lamentations 3 · Verse 51

Lamentations 3:51

Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
Lamentations 3:51, King James Version

Lamentations 3:51 in other translations

BSBMy eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
WEBMy eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
ASVMine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
YLTMy eye affecteth my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city.
DARBYMine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
BBEThe Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.
WebsterMy eye affecteth my heart because of all the daughters of my city.

What does Lamentations 3:51 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:49-51

49-51. without ... intermission--or else, "because there is no intermission" [Piscator], namely, of my miseries.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 3:42-54

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.

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Lamentations 3:51 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

עֵינִי֙'ei.Nieye myH5869
עֽוֹלְלָ֣ה'o.Lahit has dealt severelyH5953
לְנַפְשִׁ֔יle.naf.Shito self myH5315
מִכֹּ֖לmi.Kolfrom allH3605
בְּנ֥וֹתbe.Not[the] daughters ofH1323
עִירִֽי\׃\ \ס'i.Ricity myH5892

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Lamentations 3:51

  • Jeremiah 19:9

    And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

  • Luke 19:41-44

    And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

  • 1 Samuel 30:3-4

    So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives. Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

  • Lamentations 2:21

    The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

  • Jeremiah 14:16

    And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

  • Jeremiah 14:18

    If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.

  • Jeremiah 4:19-21

    My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment. How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

  • Jeremiah 11:22

    Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:

  • Lamentations 1:18

    The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

  • Lamentations 5:11

    They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

  • Genesis 44:34

    For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
eye.
Ge 44:34; 1Sa 30:3,4; Jer 4:19-21; 14:18; Lu 19:41-44
mine heart. Heb. my soul. because of all. or, more thanall. the daughters.
1:18; 2:21; 5:11; Jer 11:22; 14:16; 19:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Lamentations 3:50

    Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.

  • Lamentations 3:51

    Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

  • Lamentations 3:52

    Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

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Lamentations 3:51 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Mis ojos contristaron mi alma, por todas las hijas de mi ciudad.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Mon œil afflige mon âme à cause de toutes les filles de ma ville.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Mein Auge schmerzt mich wegen aller Töchter meiner Stadt.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Oculus meus deprædatus est animam meam in cunctis filiabus urbis meæ.