Lamentations 2:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Eyes

Isaiah 38:14

My bowels

Lamentations 1:20

Jeremiah 4:19

My liver

Job 16:13

Psalm 22:14

For

Jeremiah 14:17

Because

Lamentations 2:19

Lamentations 4:3

Luke 23:29

General references

Job 30:27

Jeremiah 51:22

Lamentations 3:48

Bible References

Eyes

{Ayin} Therefore do I weep, and mine eyes gush out of water: for the comforter that should quicken me is far from me. My children are driven away. For why? The enemy hath gotten the over hand.

Whole rivers of water gush out of mine eyes, for the great hurt of my people.

Then David and the people that was with him lifted up their voices and wept, until they could weep no more.

My beauty is gone for very trouble, and worn away because of all mine enemies.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble, and mine eye is consumed for very heaviness, yea my soul and my body.

I am weary of crying; my throat is dry. My sight faileth me, for waiting so long upon my God.

Then chattered I like a swallow, and like a crane, and mourned as a dove. I lift up mine eyes to the height: 'O LORD,' say I, 'violence is done unto me, be thou surety for me.'

My bowels

{Res} Consider, O LORD, how I am troubled: my womb is disquieted, my heart turneth about in me, and I am full of heaviness. The sword hurteth me without, and within I am like unto death.

"Ah, my belly! Ah, my belly!" shalt thou cry, "how is my heart so sore?" My heart panteth within me, I cannot be still, for I have heard the crying of the trumpets, and peals of war.

My liver

His archers compass me round about; he hath wounded my loins, and not spared. My bowels hath he poured upon the ground.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart also in the midst of my body is even like melting wax.

For

{Yod} The women, which of nature are pitiful, have sodden their own children with their hands that they might be their meat, in the miserable destruction of the daughter of my people.

When I perceived that, I said, "Let me alone, and I will make lamentation. Take no labour for to comfort me, as touching the destruction of my people."

for lo, the voice of the crying of my people is heard from a far country: "Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not the king in her?" "Wherefore then have they grieved me," shall the LORD say, "with their images and foolish strange fashions?"

O Who will give my head water enough, and a well of tears for mine eyes, that I may weep night and day for the slaughter of my people?

"This shalt thou say also unto them: 'Mine eyes shall weep without ceasing day and night. For my people shall be destroyed with great harm, and shall perish with a great plague.

Because

{Kuf} Stand up and make thy prayer in the first watch of the night; pour out thine heart like water before the LORD. Lift up thine hands for the lives of thy young children that die of hunger in the streets.

{Gimel} The Dragons give their young ones suck with bare breasts: but the daughter of my people is cruel, and dwelleth in the wilderness like the Ostriches.

For behold, the days will come, when men shall say, 'Happy are the barren and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.'

General references

My bowels seeth within me, and take no rest, for the days of my trouble are come upon me.

through thee I have scattered man and woman, old and young, bachelor and maiden.

Whole rivers of water gush out of mine eyes, for the great hurt of my people.