3:48 Streams 1 of tears flow from my eyes 2
because my people 3 are destroyed. 4
1 tn Heb “canals.” The phrase “canals of water” (eye water = tears) is an example of hyperbole. The English idiom “streams of tears” is also hyperbolic.
2 tn Heb “my eyes flow down with canals of water.”
3 tn Heb “the daughter of my people,” or “the Daughter, my people.”
4 tn Heb “because of the destruction of [the daughter of my people].”