Lamentations 3:51 My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city. 1. The eye, in seeing the outward miseries that God layeth upon us, is a special mean to make us the more sorrowful in heart for it. (1) The sight is the quickest of the senses. (2) Things seen are most surely and amply known and understood, seeing a report may deceive us, but not the sight. 2. Natural affection of the most passionate woman can bring no such grief of heart as the ministry of the Church of God doth often work in the godly. (1) Those mourn for things temporal, these for spiritual. (2) Those have nothing but natural affection to set them on work; these have God's Spirit also that helpeth them herein, and worketh a greater affection to God's truth than any affection of nature can work in a mother to the child of her womb. (J. Udall.) Parallel Verses KJV: Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.WEB: My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. |
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