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) I weep because of these things; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one in sight who can comfort me or encourage me. My children are desolated because an enemy has prevailed.

Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.

Then David and the men who were with him wept loudly until they could weep no more.

My eyes grow dim from suffering; they grow weak because of all my enemies.

Have mercy on me, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.

I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God.

Like a swallow or a thrush I chirp, I coo like a dove; my eyes grow tired from looking up to the sky. O sovereign master, I am oppressed; help me!

My bowels

(Resh) Look, O Lord! I am distressed; my stomach is in knots! My heart is pounding inside me. Yes, I was terribly rebellious! Out in the street the sword bereaves a mother of her children; Inside the house death is present.

I said, "Oh, the feeling in the pit of my stomach! I writhe in anguish. Oh, the pain in my heart! My heart pounds within me. I cannot keep silent. For I hear the sound of the trumpet; the sound of the battle cry pierces my soul!

My liver

his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.

My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.

For

(Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.

So I say: "Don't look at me! I am weeping bitterly. Don't try to console me concerning the destruction of my defenseless people."

I hear my dear people crying out throughout the length and breadth of the land. They are crying, 'Is the Lord no longer in Zion? Is her divine King no longer there?'" The Lord answers, "Why then do they provoke me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?"

I wish that my head were a well full of water and my eyes were a fountain full of tears! If they were, I could cry day and night for those of my dear people who have been killed.

"Tell these people this, Jeremiah: 'My eyes overflow with tears day and night without ceasing. For my people, my dear children, have suffered a crushing blow. They have suffered a serious wound.

Because

(Qof) Get up! Cry out in the night when the night watches start! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord! Lift up your hands to him for your children's lives; they are fainting at every street corner.

(Gimel) Even the jackals nurse their young at their breast, but my people are cruel, like ostriches in the desert.

For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!'

General references

My heart is in turmoil unceasingly; the days of my affliction confront me.

I used you to smash men and women. I used you to smash old men and young men. I used you to smash young men and young women.

Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.