Text -- Lamentations 3:48 (NET)

3:48 Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Lam 3:48

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].”