Lamentations 2:18New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Their heart cried out to the Lord, “O wall of the daughter of Zion, Let [your] tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no relief, Let your eyes have no rest.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Their heart cried unto the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; give thyself no respite; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Their heart cried unto the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give thyself no respite; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Their heart cried to the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thy eye cease.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Their heart cried unto the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a torrent day and night: give thyself no respite; let not the apple of thine eye rest.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Their heart, hath made outcry, unto My Lord,—O wall of the daughter of Zion—Let tears run down as a torrent day and night, Do not give thyself relief, Let not the weeping of thine eye cease!
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Cried hath their heart unto the Lord; O wall of the daughter of Zion, Cause to go down as a stream tears daily and nightly, Give not rest to thyself, Let not the daughter of thine eye stand still.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Sade. Their heart cried to the Lord upon the walls of the daughter of Sion: Let tears run down like a torrent day and night: give thyself no rest, and let not the apple of thy eye cease.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Their heart cryed vnto the Lord, O wall of the daughter Zion, let teares runne downe like a riuer, day and night: take thee no rest, neither let the apple of thine eye cease.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Their heart cried vnto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let teares runne downe like a riuer, day and night: giue thy selfe no rest, let not the apple of thine eyes cease.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— The people's heart cried to the LORD of the walls of the daughter of Zion; let your tears run down like a stream day and night; give yourself no rest; let not the apple of your eye cease from shedding tears.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— TSADE. Their heart cried to the Lord, Ye walls of Zion{gr.Sion}, pour down tears like torrents day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eyes cease.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Their heart cried unto Yahweh, O wall of the daughter of Tziyyon, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease. |
Their heart
3820 {3820} Primeלֵבleb{labe}
A form of H3824; the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything.
cried
6817 {6817} Primeצָעַקtsa`aq{tsaw-ak'}
A primitive root; to shriek; (by implication) to proclaim (an assembly).
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
unto
x413 (0413) Complementאֵל'el{ale}
(Used only in the shortened constructive form (the second form)); a primitive particle, properly denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, that is, near, with or among; often in general, to.
Yähwè
יָהוֶה,
136 {0136} Primeאֲדֹנָי'Adonay{ad-o-noy'}
An emphatic form of H0113; the Lord (used as a proper name of God only).
O wall
2346 {2346} Primeחוֹמָהchowmah{kho-maw'}
Feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join; a wall of protection.
of the daughter
1323 {1323} Primeבַּתbath{bath}
From H1129 (as feminine of H1121); a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively).
of
Xiyyôn
צִיּוֹן,
6726 {6726} PrimeצִיּוֹןTsiyown{tsee-yone'}
The same (regular) as H6725; Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem.
let tears
1832
run down
3381 {3381} Primeיָרַדyarad{yaw-rad'}
A primitive root; to descend (literally to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively to fall); causatively to bring down (in all the above applications).
z8685 <8685> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Imperative (See H8810) Count - 731
like a river
5158 {5158} Primeנַחַלnachal{nakh'-al}
From H5157 in its original sense; a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine).
day
3119 {3119} Primeיוֹמָםyowmam{yo-mawm'}
From H3117; daily.
and night:
3915 {3915} Primeלַיִלlayil{lah'-yil}
From the same as H3883; properly a twist (away of the light), that is, night; figuratively adversity.
give
5414 {5414} Primeנָתַןnathan{naw-than'}
A primitive root; to give, used with great latitude of application ( put, make, etc.).
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
thyself no
x408 (0408) Complementאַל'al{al}
A negative particle (akin to H3808); not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing.
rest;
6314 {6314} Primeפּוּגָהpuwgah{poo-gaw'}
From H6313; intermission.
let not
x408 (0408) Complementאַל'al{al}
A negative particle (akin to H3808); not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing.
the apple
1323 {1323} Primeבַּתbath{bath}
From H1129 (as feminine of H1121); a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively).
of thine eye
5869 {5869} Primeעַיִן`ayin{ah'-yin}
Probably a primitive word; an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy a fountain (as the eye of the landscape).
cease.
1826 {1826} Primeדָּמַםdamam{daw-man'}
A primitive root (compare H1724, H1820); to be dumb; by implication to be astonished, to stop; also to perish.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885 |
Lamentations 2:18
Tzaddi
_ _ wall — (Lamentations 2:8). Personified. “Their heart,” that is, the Jews’; while their heart is lifted up to the Lord in prayer, their speech is addressed to the “wall” (the part being put for the whole city).
_ _ let tears, etc. — (Jeremiah 14:17). The wall is called on to weep for its own ruin and that of the city. Compare the similar personification (Lamentations 1:4).
_ _ apple — the pupil of the eye (Psalms 17:8). |
Lamentations 2:18
O wall — That is, those that are upon it. |
- heart:
Psalms 119:145 KOPH. I cried with [my] whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
Isaiah 26:16-17 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening [was] upon them. ... Like as a woman with child, [that] draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
Hosea 7:14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, [and] they rebel against me.
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- O wall:
Lamentations 2:8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
Habakkuk 2:11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
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- let tears:
Lamentations 1:2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears [are] on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort [her]: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
Lamentations 1:16 For these [things] I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
Lamentations 3:48-49 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. ... Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Psalms 119:136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
Jeremiah 4:31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, [and] the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, [that] bewaileth herself, [that] spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe [is] me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
Jeremiah 9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 9:17-18 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning [women], that they may come: ... And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Jeremiah 13:17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.
Jeremiah 14:17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
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- the apple:
- Bath ayin which sometimes means the pupil of the eye, seems here to denote tears, the produce of the eye; and therefore elegantly termed the daughter of the eye.
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