John Gill's Exposition on Lamentations 3:49

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, etc.] From weeping, as the Targum: the prophet was continually weeping; the distresses of his people were always uppermost in his mind; and which so affected him, that it drew tears from his eyes, which constantly trickled down his cheeks: without any intermission; or, “without intermissions” f85; there were no stops or pauses in his grief, and in the expressions of it: or it may be rendered, “because [there were] no intermissions” f86; that is, of the miseries of his people; so Jarchi, “because there were no changes and passing away;” that is of evils; and to the same purpose the Targum, “because there is none that intermits my distress, and speaks comforts to me.”

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