Lamentations 3:49

Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not,.... From weeping, as the Targum: the prophet was continually weeping; the distresses of his people were always uppermost in his mind; and which so affected him, that it drew tears from his eyes, which constantly trickled down his cheeks: without any intermission; or, "without intermissions" (n); there were no stops or pauses in his grief, and in the expressions of it: or it may be rendered, "because there were no intermissions" (o); that is, of the miseries of his people; so Jarchi, "because there were no changes and passing away;'' that is of evils; and to the same purpose the Targum, "because there is none that intermits my distress, and speaks comforts to me.'' (n) "a non intermissionibus", Montanus, Calvin; "sine intervallis", Cocceius. (o) "Eo quod nullae sunt intermissiones", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Tigurine version.

The prophet was deeply affected upon the prospect of this evil before it came, Jeremiah 9:1 , and was now much more affected when he saw the judgment was come; he wept plentifully and constantly, as for their sins which had brought these judgments upon them, so for the judgments themselves, as indications of God’s displeasure and wrath against them for their transgressions.

נגּר means to be poured out, empty self; cf. 2 Samuel 14:14 ; Micah 1:4 . "And is not silent" equals and rests not, i.e., incessantly; cf. Jeremiah 14:17 . מאין הפגות does not mean, eo quod non sint intermissiones miseriarum vel fletus (C. B. Michaelis and Rosenmller, following the Chaldee), but "so that there is no intermission or drying up." As to הפגות, which means the same as פּוּגה, see on Lamentations 2:18 . "Until the Lord look down from heaven and examine," in order to put an end to the distress, or to take compassion on His people. On ישׁקיף, cf. Psalm 14:2 ; Psalm 102:20 .

1. Let us examine ourselves. 2. "Let us turn again to the Lord." 3. "Let us lift up our heart;" let us make fervent prayer and supplication for mercy. 4. "Let us lift up our hand;" let us solemnly promise to be his, and bind ourselves in a covenant to be the Lord's only: so much lifting up the hand to God implies. Or, let us put our heart on our hand, and offer it to God; so some have translated this clause. 5. "We have transgressed;" let our confession of sin be fervent and sincere. ADAM CLARK'S BIBLE COMMENTARY LAMENTATIONS 6. And to us who profess Christianity it may be added, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as having died for thee; and thou shalt not perish, but have everlasting life. Lamentations 3:46, Lamentations 3:47, Lamentations 3:48, beginning with ‫פ‬ phe, should, as to the order of the alphabet, follow Lamentations 3:49, Lamentations 3:50, Lamentations 3:51, which begin with ‫ע‬ ain, which in its grammatical position precedes the former. LAMENTATIONS 3: 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens. LAMENTATIONS 3: 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned. LAMENTATIONS 3: 43 You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied. LAMENTATIONS 3: 44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through. LAMENTATIONS 3: 45 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples. LAMENTATIONS 3: 46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. LAMENTATIONS 3: 47 Fear and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.

s of their houses, or the most vile, refuse, and contemptible things imaginable. Lamentations 3:46 That is, to mock, scoff, and reproach us. Lamentations 3:47 All manner of misery was come upon them. They were seized first with fears and terrors; going to escape these they fell into a snare, or (as it is in the Hebrew) into a pit, out of which they could not get; they were wasted, made desolate, and destroyed. Lamentations 3:48 No text from Poole on this verse. Lamentations 3:49 The prophet was deeply affected upon the prospect of this evil before it came, Jer_9:1, and was now much more affected when he saw the judgment was come; he wept plentifully and constantly, as for their sins which had brought these judgments upon them, so for the judgments themselves, as indications of God’s displeasure and wrath against them for their transgressions. Lamentations 3:50 That is, until the Lord show me some favour. See the notes on Lam_1:9. Lamentations 3:51 The eye and the ear are those organs of the body, by which the soul exerciseth its senses to bring in all objects, whether pleasant or sad, to the understanding to judge of them, according to the judgment of which upon them it is affected with joy or sorrow, desire or aversation, &c.; and the eye is