Lamentations 2:11

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
eyes	עֵינַי֙ 'ei.Nai	H5869	an eye (literally or figuratively) · noun, common feminine dual construct + pronominal suffix
fail	כָּל֨וּ ka.Lu	H3615	to end · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
tears	בַדְּמָע֤וֹת va.de.ma.'ot	H1832	weeping · preposition with the article + noun, common feminine plural absolute
bowels	מֵעַ֔י me.'Ai	H4578	used only in plural the intestines · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
troubled	חֳמַרְמְר֣וּ cho.mar.me.Ru	H2560	properly · verb, piel perfect, 3rd person common plural
liver	כְּבֵדִ֔י ke.ve.Di	H3516	the liver (as the heaviest of the viscera) · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix
poured	נִשְׁפַּ֤ךְ nish.Pakh	H8210	to spill forth (blood · verb, niphal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
earth	לָאָ֙רֶץ֙ la.'A.retz	H776	the earth (at large · preposition with the article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
destruction	שֶׁ֖בֶר She.ver	H7667	a fracture · noun, common masculine singular construct
daughter	בַּת bat-	H1323	a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms… · noun, common feminine singular construct
people	עַמִּ֑י 'a.Mi	H5971	a people (as a congregated unit) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix
children	עוֹלֵל֙ o.Lel	H5768	a suckling · noun, common masculine singular absolute
sucklings	וְיוֹנֵ֔ק ve.yo.Nek	H3243	to suck · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular absolute
swoon	בֵּֽעָטֵ֤ף be.'a.Tef	H5848	to shroud · preposition + verb, niphal infinitive construct
streets	בִּרְחֹב֖וֹת bir.cho.Vot	H7339	a width · preposition + noun, common feminine plural construct
city	קִרְיָֽה kir.Yah	H7151	building · noun, common feminine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Lamentations 1:20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the swo…
Job 16:13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
Jeremiah 4:19 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 sou…
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 ch…
Psalms 6:7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
Psalms 22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Isaiah 22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 3:48-51 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 2:10–end

Justly are these called Lamentations, and they are very pathetic ones, the expressions of grief in perfection, mourning and woe, and nothing else, like the contents of Ezekiel's roll, Eze 2:10. I. Copies of lamentations are here presented and they are painted to the life. 1. The judges and magistrates, who used to appear in robes of state, have laid them aside, or rather are stripped of them, and put on the habit of mourners (Lam 2:10); the elders now sit no longer in the judgment-seats, the thrones of the house of David, but they sit upon the ground, having no seat to repose themselves in, or in token of great grief, as Job's friends sat with him upon the ground, Job 2:13. They open not the…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 2:11

liver is poured, &c.--that is, as the liver was thought to be the seat of the passions, "all my feelings are poured out and prostrated for," &c. The "liver," is here put for the bile ("gall," Job 16:13; "bowels," Psa 22:14) in a bladder on the surface of the liver, copiously discharged when the passions are agitated. swoon--through faintness from the effects of hunger.

Adam Clarke on Lamentations 2:11

Swoon in the streets of the city - Through the excess of the famine.

John Gill on Lamentations 2:11

Mine eyes do fail with tears,.... According to Aben Ezra, everyone of the elders before mentioned said this; but rather they are the words of the Prophet Jeremiah, who had wept his eyes dry, or rather blind, on account of the calamities of his people; though he himself obtained liberty and enlargement by means thereof: my bowels are troubled; all his inward parts were distressed: my liver is poured upon the earth; his gall bladder, which lay at the bottom of his liver, broke, and he cast it up, and poured it on the earth; see Job 16:13; and all this was for the destruction of the daughter of my people; or, the "breach" of them (t); their civil and church state being destroyed and broke to…

Dictionary and topics

Famine · 5:17;14:1-6;48:33; — 5:17;14:1-6;48:33;

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Lamentations 2:11

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 2:10–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 2:11

Adam Clarke on Lamentations 2:11

John Gill on Lamentations 2:11

Dictionary and topics

Lamentations 2:11

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 2:10–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 2:11

Adam Clarke on Lamentations 2:11

John Gill on Lamentations 2:11

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Lamentations 2:11

Keil & Delitzsch on Lamentations 2:11-12

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Lamentations 2:10

Rashi on Lamentations 2:11