Holy Scripture
Lamentations 3:49
A church father on this verse
“The compassion of the prophet is here exposed. First is the exterior lamentation: "My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite." Namely, crying: "without ceasing": from tears: "without respite": from tribulation for the people. For Jeremiah 9:18-19 asserts: "And our eyelids gush with water. For a sound of waili…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
49Mine eye is drowned with tears, And I will not be silent, So that there shall be no rest,
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47Fear and wrath are come upon us, Suspense and destruction.
48Mine eye shall pour down torrents of water, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
— Lamentations 3:49 —
50Until the Lord look down, And behold from heaven.
51Mine eye shall prey upon my soul, Because of all the daughters of the city.