| Geneva Study Bible My eye {x} affecteth my heart because of all the daughters of my city. (x) I am overcome with sore weeping for all my people. King James Translators' Notes mine heart: Heb. my soul because...: or, more than all Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 51. eye affecteth mine heart-that is, causeth me grief with continual tears; or, "affecteth my life" (literally, "soul," Margin), that is, my health [Grotius]. daughters of . city-the towns around, dependencies of Jerusalem, taken by the foe. Tzaddi. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 3:42-54 The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relief and succour from any but the Lord. |