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.
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Gill's Exposition
For these things I weep,.... The congregation of Judah, the godly among them, particularly Jeremiah, who represented them, wept for the sins the people had been guilty of, and for the punishment…
The lamentation of the city, personified as a woman in grief over her fate. Lam 1:13 It prevaileth - Or, hath subdued. He hath turned me back - Judaea, like a hunted animal, endeavors to escape, but…
The complaints here are, for substance, the same with those in the foregoing part of the chapter; but in these verses the prophet, in the name of the lamenting church, does more particularly…
Cambridge Bible
For these things The particulars rehearsed in the last three vv. open again the floodgates of tears.
mine eye, mine eye This repetition spoils the metre, and arises in all probability from a copyist's…
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