Lamentations 3:51

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עֵינִי֙ עֽוֹלְלָ֣ה לְנַפְשִׁ֔י מִכֹּ֖ל בְּנ֥וֹת עִירִֽי׃

Transliteration

ʿênî ʿôlelâ to napšî from all benôt ʿîrî

Grammar Details

• *ʿênî*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my eye
• *ʿôlelâ*: verb, polel perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - brings pain
• *napšî*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my soul
• *benôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - daughters of
• *ʿîrî*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my city

Word Meanings

• *ʿôlelâ*: brings pain/hurts/afflicts
• *napšî*: my soul/my life/myself
• *benôt*: daughters of/women of

Referenced Verses

• Gen 44:34 : 34 For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.
• 1 Sam 30:3-4 : 3 And when David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive. 4 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
• Jer 4:19-21 : 19 My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace; because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. 20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains in a moment. 21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
• Jer 11:22 : 22 therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;
• Jer 14:16 : 16 And 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 14:18 : 18 If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, they that are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.
• Jer 19:9 : 9 And 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 in the distress, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their life, shall distress them.
• Lam 1:18 : 18 Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
• Lam 2:21 : 21 The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; Thou hast slaughtered, [and] not pitied.
• Lam 5:11 : 11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
• Luke 19:41-44 : 41 And when he drew nigh, he saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, If thou hadst known in this {G4675} day, even thou, the things which belong unto {G4675} peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. 43 For the days shall come upon thee, when thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 44 and shall dash thee to the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.