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Lamentations 2:11 Cross-References
Explore 19 cross-references for Lamentations 2:11 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Lamentations chapter 2 verse 11 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“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. swoon: or, faint”
Lamentations 2:11 (KJV)
Commentary on Lamentations 2:11
Mine eyes do fail with tears (כָּלוּ בַדְּמָעוֹת עֵינַי, kalu vademot einai)—The Hebrew verb 'kalu' means 'to be finished, spent, consumed'—total emotional and physical exhaustion from weeping. My bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth uses visceral Hebrew idiom: 'bowels' (מֵעַי, meay) represents the seat of emotions, while 'liver' (כָּבֵד, kaved) symbolizes the core of life being drained out. Because the children and sucklings swoon in the streets identifies the cause: covenant curses fulfilled (Deuteronomy 28:53-57). The prophet's grief is not merely empathetic but participat...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Lamentations 2:11
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“Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves”
“and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.”
“my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; because you have heard”
“my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate”
“the days are coming in which they will say”
“Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.”
“I am poured out like water”
“for the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
“Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.,Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people., עַל־כֵּן אָמַרְתִּי שְׁעוּ מִנִּי אֲמָרֵר בַּבֶּכִי אַל־תָּאִיצוּ לְנַחֲמֵנִי עַל־שֹׁד בַּת־עַמִּי׃ ,Therefore said I: Look away from me”
“Yahweh”