Lamentations 3:48

Streams ¹  of tears flow from my eyes ²  because my people ³  are destroyed. ⁴ 

Ps 119:136; Jer 4:19; Jer 9:1,18; Jer 13:17; La 2:11,18; Ro 9:1-3

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].”