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Lamentations 1:16 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 1 · verse 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 1:16 · King James Version
Lamentations 1:16 in context
14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
15The LORD hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the LORD hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
16For 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.
17Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
18The 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- comforternâchamproperly, to sighH5162 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- desolateshâmêmto stunH8074 →
- relieveshûwbto turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figurativelyH7725 →
- watermayimwaterH4325 →
- enemyʼôyêbhatingH341 →
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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 acknowledge the hand of god in these calamities, and the righteousness of his hand. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-22