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Lamentations 3:51

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— My eyes bring pain to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— My eye affecteth my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Mine eye dealeth severely with my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— My eye affecteth my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Mine eye breaketh mine heart because of all the daughters of my citie.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Mine eye affecteth mine heart, because of all the daughters of my city.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— I wept vehemently over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Mine eye shall prey upon my soul, because of all the daughters of the city.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Mine eye 5869
{5869} Prime
עַיִן
`ayin
{ah'-yin}
Probably a primitive word; an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy a fountain (as the eye of the landscape).
affecteth 5953
{5953} Prime
עָלַל
`alal
{aw-lal'}
A primitive root; to effect thoroughly; specifically to glean (also figuratively); by implication (in a bad sense) to overdo, that is, maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose (also literally).
z8782
<8782> Grammar
Stem - Poel (See H8845)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 11
mine heart 5315
{5315} Prime
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
{neh'-fesh}
From H5314; properly a breathing creature, that is, animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental).
because of all x4480
(4480) Complement
מִן
min
{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
x3605
(3605) Complement
כֹּל
kol
{kole}
From H3634; properly the whole; hence all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense).
the daughters 1323
{1323} Prime
בַּת
bath
{bath}
From H1129 (as feminine of H1121); a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively).
of my city. 5892
{5892} Prime
עִיר
`iyr
{eer}
From H5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Lamentations 3:49-51.


Lamentations 3:51

_ _ eye affecteth mine heart — that is, causeth me grief with continual tears; or, “affecteth my life” (literally, “soul,” Margin), that is, my health [Grotius].

_ _ daughters of ... city — the towns around, dependencies of Jerusalem, taken by the foe.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Lamentations 3:42-54.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
eye:

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.
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.
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. ... How long shall I see the standard, [and] hear the sound of the trumpet?
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.
Luke 19:41-44 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, ... 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.

mine heart:
Heb. my soul

because of all:
or, more than all

the daughters:

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 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.
Lamentations 5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
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:
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 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.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Gn 44:34. 1S 30:3. Jr 4:19; 11:22; 14:16, 18; 19:9. Lm 1:18; 2:21; 5:11. Lk 19:41.

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