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Lamentations 3

Lam. 3:51 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Mine eye
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
affecteth
`alal (Hebrew #5953)
to effect thoroughly; specifically, to glean (also figuratively); by implication (in a bad sense) to overdo, i.e. maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose (also literal)
KJV usage: abuse, affect, X child, defile, do, glean, mock, practise, thoroughly, work (wonderfully).
Pronounce: aw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root
μmine heart
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
πbecause of all the daughters
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
of my city
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
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μ
my soul.
π
or, more than.

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Cross References

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Gen. 44:34• 34for how should I go up to my father if the lad [were] not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come to my father. (Gen. 44:34)
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1 Sam. 30:3‑4• 3So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
 4Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep. (1 Sam. 30:3‑4)
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Jer. 4:19‑21• 19My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
 20Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is wasted: suddenly are my tents laid waste, my curtains, in a moment.
 21How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet? (Jer. 4:19‑21)
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Jer. 14:18• 18If I go forth into the field, behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, behold them that pine away with famine! For both prophet and priest shall go about into a land that they know not. (Jer. 14:18)
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Luke 19:41‑44• 41And when he drew near, on seeing the city, he wept over it,
 42saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things for thy peace: but now they are hid from thine eyes.
 43For days shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall make a rampart about thee and compass thee round and keep thee in on every side,
 44and level thee with the ground and thy children in thee; and not leave in thee stone upon stone; because thou knewest not the season of thy visitation. (Luke 19:41‑44)
mine heart.
Heb. my soul.
because of all.
or, more thanall.
the daughters.
Lam. 1:18• 18Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment:{HR}Hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow:{HR}My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. (Lam. 1:18)
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Lam. 2:21• 21The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets:{HR}My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword;{HR}Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied. (Lam. 2:21)
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Lam. 5:11• 11Women have they ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah. (Lam. 5:11)
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Jer. 11:22• 22—therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine; (Jer. 11:22)
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Jer. 14:16• 16And the people to whom, they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters for I will pour their wickedness upon them. (Jer. 14:16)
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Jer. 19:9• 9And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them. (Jer. 19:9)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

W. Kelly Translation

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Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.