Study it in the app“My eyes are spent with tears; my insides are in turmoil; my liver is poured out on the ground because of the shattering of the daughter of my people, when child and nursing infant faint in the squares of the city.”
My eyesעֵינַיare spentכָּלוּwith tears;בַדְּמָעוֹתmy insidesמֵעַיare in turmoil;חֳמַרְמְרוּmy liverכְּבֵדִיis poured outנִשְׁפַּךְon the groundלָאָרֶץbecause of the shatteringעַל שֶׁבֶרof the daughterבַּתof my people,עַמִּיwhenבֵּchildעוֹלֵלand nursing infantוְיוֹנֵקfaintעָטֵףin the squaresבִּרְחֹבוֹתof the city.קִרְיָה
eye
The organ with which one sees; so "lift the eyes" means to look.
Where else “ena” appearsbe spent
To be used up little by little until nothing is left.
Where else “kalu” appearstears, weeping
Tears, weeping. In 2 Kings 20:5 YHWH says to Hezekiah: "I have seen your tears." Frequent in the Psalms and in Jeremiah (Psalm 56:8; Jeremiah 9:1).
Where else “demaot” appearscompassion
What is felt inside: pain, anguish or compassion felt in the bowels.
Where else “mea” appearsseethe
Seethe, churn: waters, wine, troubled insides.
Where else “chomarmru” appearsliver
Liver.
Where else “kevedi” appearsspill
To empty out water or blood; "spill blood" is to kill.
Where else “nishpach” appearsground
What is underfoot: bowing down to touch it.
Where else “arets” appearsruin
The downfall of a people or someone.
Where else “shever” appearsdaughter
A girl or woman born of her parents, who belongs to her father's house.
Where else “bat” appearsAmmi
Israel, YHWH's people: "my people".
Where else “ami” appearsyoung child
A small child, an infant. Said of young children, often together with "the nursing child."
Where else “olel” appearssuck
For a baby to take milk from his mother's breast.
Where else “yonek” appearsgrow faint
To lose all strength.
Where else “atef” appearssquare
Square: the open space of a town.
Where else “rechovot” appearstown, city
Town: a poetic way of saying "city."
Where else “kirya” appearsLiterally “my liver is poured out on the ground”; it can be understood as an image of the deepest pain.
10They sit on the ground, they are silent, the elders of the daughter of Zion; they have thrown up dust on their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth; they have bowed to the ground their heads, the virgins of Jerusalem.
11 · This verse (above)
12To their mothers they say, “Where is grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the squares of the city, as their life is poured out into the bosom of their mothers.
