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You walls of Daughter Zion, let your tears flow like a river day and night; give yourself no relief, your eyes no rest. <a href="/nlt/lamentations/2.htm">New Living Translation</a> Cry aloud before the Lord, O walls of beautiful Jerusalem! Let your tears flow like a river day and night. Give yourselves no rest; give your eyes no relief. <a href="/esv/lamentations/2.htm">English Standard Version</a> Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears stream down like a torrent day and night! Give yourself no rest, your eyes no respite! <a href="/bsb/lamentations/2.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest. <a href="/kjv/lamentations/2.htm">King James Bible</a> Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease. <a href="/nkjv/lamentations/2.htm">New King James Version</a> Their heart cried out to the Lord, “O wall of the daughter of Zion, Let tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no relief; Give your eyes no rest. <a href="/nasb_/lamentations/2.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Their heart cried out to the Lord: “You wall of the daughter of Zion, Let your tears stream down like a river day and night; Give yourself no relief, Let your eyes have no rest. <a href="/nasb/lamentations/2.htm">NASB 1995</a> Their heart cried out to the Lord, &#8220O wall of the daughter of Zion, Let your tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no relief, Let your eyes have no rest. <a href="/nasb77/lamentations/2.htm">NASB 1977 </a> Their heart cried out to the Lord, “O wall of the daughter of Zion, Let your tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no relief; Let your eyes have no rest. <a href="/lsb/lamentations/2.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Their heart cried out to the Lord, “O wall of the daughter of Zion, Let your tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no relief; Let your eyes not be still. <a href="/amp/lamentations/2.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Their hearts cried out to the Lord. “O wall of the Daughter of Zion, Let your tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no relief, Let your eyes have no rest. <a href="/csb/lamentations/2.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. Wall of Daughter Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief and your eyes no rest. <a href="/hcsb/lamentations/2.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. Wall of Daughter Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief and your eyes no rest. <a href="/asv/lamentations/2.htm">American Standard Version</a> Their heart cried unto the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give thyself no respite; let not the apple of thine eye cease. <a href="/cev/lamentations/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Zion, deep in your heart you cried out to the Lord. Now let your tears overflow your walls day and night. Don't ever lose hope or let your tears stop. <a href="/erv/lamentations/2.htm">English Revised Version</a> Their heart cried unto the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; give thyself no respite; let not the apple of thine eye cease. <a href="/gwt/lamentations/2.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> The hearts of Jerusalem's people cried out to the LORD, the wall of Zion's people. Let your tears run down like a river day and night. Don't let them stop. Don't let your eyes rest. <a href="/gnt/lamentations/2.htm">Good News Translation</a> O Jerusalem, let your very walls cry out to the Lord! Let your tears flow like rivers night and day; Wear yourself out with weeping and grief! <a href="/isv/lamentations/2.htm">International Standard Version</a> Cry out from your heart to the Lord, wall of fair Zion! Let your tears run down like a river day and night. Allow yourself no rest, and don't stop crying. <a href="/msb/lamentations/2.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest. <a href="/net/lamentations/2.htm">NET Bible</a> Cry out from your heart to the Lord, O wall of Daughter Zion! Make your tears flow like a river all day and all night long! Do not rest; do not let your tears stop! <a href="/nheb/lamentations/2.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Their heart cried to the LORD. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no respite; do not let your tears cease. <a href="/wbt/lamentations/2.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Their heart cried to the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thy eye cease. <a href="/web/lamentations/2.htm">World English Bible</a> Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let your eyes rest. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/lamentations/2.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> Their heart has cried to the Lord; O wall of the daughter of Zion, "" Cause to go down tears as a stream daily and nightly, do not give rest to yourself, "" Do not let the daughter of your eye stand still. <a href="/ylt/lamentations/2.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Cried hath their heart unto the Lord; O wall of the daughter of Zion, Cause to go down as a stream tears daily and nightly, Give not rest to thyself, Let not the daughter of thine eye stand still. <a href="/slt/lamentations/2.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Their heart cried to Jehovah, O wall of the daughter of Zion, cause tears to go down as a torrent day and night thou shalt give no remission to thyself; the daughter of thine eye shall not be silent.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/lamentations/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Sade. Their heart cried to the Lord upon the walls of the daughter of Sion: Let tears run down like a torrent day and night: give thyself no rest, and let not the apple of thy eye cease. <a href="/cpdv/lamentations/2.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> SADE. Their heart cried out to the Lord from the walls of the daughter of Zion. Let tears run down like a torrent throughout the day and the night. Do not give rest to yourself, and do not allow the pupil of your eye to cease. <a href="/nabre/lamentations/2.htm">New American Bible</a> Cry out to the Lord from your heart, wall of daughter Zion! Let your tears flow like a torrent day and night; Give yourself no rest, no relief for your eyes. <a href="/nrsvce/lamentations/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Cry aloud to the Lord! O wall of daughter Zion! Let tears stream down like a torrent day and night! Give yourself no rest, your eyes no respite!<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/lamentations/2.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> The people's heart cried to the LORD of the walls of the daughter of Zion; let your tears run down like a stream day and night: give yourself no rest; let not the apple of your eye cease from shedding tears. <a href="/hpbt/lamentations/2.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Tsadhe Their heart cried to LORD JEHOVAH of the walls of the daughter of Zion. Make flow as a torrent of tears by day and by night! You shall not be given refreshing for yourselves, and the pupil of your eye shall not cease!<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/lamentations/2.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Their heart cried unto the Lord: 'O wall of the daughter of Zion, Let tears run down like a river Day and night; Give thyself no respite; Let not the apple of thine eye cease. <a href="/sep/lamentations/2.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> TSADE. Their heart cried to the Lord, Ye walls of Sion, pour down tears like torrents day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eyes cease. <a href="/parallel/lamentations/2-18.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rKrWuOkEqzQ?start=613" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/lamentations/2.htm">God's Anger over Jerusalem</a> …17The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes. 18<a href="/hebrew/3820.htm" title="3820: lib·bām (N-msc:: 3mp) -- A form of lebab; the heart; also used very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything.">The hearts of the people</a> <a href="/hebrew/6817.htm" title="6817: ṣā·‘aq (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To cry, cry out, call. A primitive root; to shriek; to proclaim.">cry out</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">to</a> <a href="/hebrew/136.htm" title="136: ’ă·ḏō·nāy (N-proper-ms) -- Lord. Am emphatic form of 'adown; the Lord.">the Lord.</a> <a href="/hebrew/2346.htm" title="2346: ḥō·w·maṯ (N-fsc) -- A wall. Feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join; a wall of protection.">O wall</a> <a href="/hebrew/1323.htm" title="1323: baṯ- (N-fsc) -- Daughter. From banah; a daughter.">of the Daughter</a> <a href="/hebrew/6726.htm" title="6726: ṣî·yō·wn (N-proper-fs) -- A mountain in Jer., also a name for Jer. The same as tsiyuwn; Tsijon, a mountain of Jerusalem.">of Zion,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1832.htm" title="1832: dim·‘āh (N-fs) -- Tears (of one weeping). Feminine of dema'; weeping.">let your tears</a> <a href="/hebrew/3381.htm" title="3381: hō·w·rî·ḏî (V-Hifil-Imp-fs) -- To come or go down, descend. ">run down</a> <a href="/hebrew/5158.htm" title="5158: ḵan·na·ḥal (Prep-k, Art:: N-ms) -- Or nachlah; or nachalah; from nachal in its original sense; a stream, especially a winter torrent; a valley; also a shaft.">like a river</a> <a href="/hebrew/3119.htm" title="3119: yō·w·mām (Adv) -- Daytime, by day. From yowm; daily.">day</a> <a href="/hebrew/3915.htm" title="3915: wā·lay·lāh (Conj-w:: N-ms) -- Night. Or leyl; also laylah; from the same as luwl; properly, a twist, i.e. Night; figuratively, adversity.">and night.</a> <a href="/hebrew/5414.htm" title="5414: tit·tə·nî (V-Qal-Imperf-2fs) -- To give, put, set. A primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application.">Give</a> <a href="/hebrew/lāḵ (Prep:: 2fs) -- ">yourself</a> <a href="/hebrew/408.htm" title="408: ’al- (Adv) -- Not (a subjective neg.). A negative particle; not; once as a noun, nothing.">no</a> <a href="/hebrew/6314.htm" title="6314: p̄ū·ḡaṯ (N-fsc) -- Cessation. From puwg; intermission.">relief,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5869.htm" title="5869: ‘ê·nêḵ (N-csc:: 2fs) -- An eye. Probably a primitive word; an eye; by analogy, a fountain.">and your eyes</a> <a href="/hebrew/1323.htm" title="1323: baṯ- (N-fsc) -- Daughter. From banah; a daughter."></a> <a href="/hebrew/408.htm" title="408: ’al- (Adv) -- Not (a subjective neg.). A negative particle; not; once as a noun, nothing.">no</a> <a href="/hebrew/1826.htm" title="1826: tid·dōm (V-Qal-Imperf-3fs) -- A prim root; to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish.">rest.</a> 19Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/jeremiah/14-17.htm">Jeremiah 14:17</a> You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound. <a href="/isaiah/62-6.htm">Isaiah 62:6-7</a> On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves, / nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth. <a href="/psalms/119-136.htm">Psalm 119:136</a> My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed. <a href="/jeremiah/9-1.htm">Jeremiah 9:1</a> Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people. <a href="/isaiah/33-7.htm">Isaiah 33:7</a> Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly. <a href="/luke/19-41.htm">Luke 19:41-44</a> As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it / and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes. / For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side. ... <a href="/matthew/23-37.htm">Matthew 23:37</a> O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! <a href="/jeremiah/13-17.htm">Jeremiah 13:17</a> But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive. <a href="/joel/2-17.htm">Joel 2:17</a> Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’” <a href="/psalms/42-3.htm">Psalm 42:3</a> My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?” <a href="/ezekiel/9-4.htm">Ezekiel 9:4</a> “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.” <a href="/2_kings/19-1.htm">2 Kings 19:1-4</a> On hearing this report, King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD. / And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz / to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them. ... <a href="/nehemiah/1-4.htm">Nehemiah 1:4</a> When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven. <a href="/jeremiah/31-15.htm">Jeremiah 31:15</a> This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” <a href="/revelation/18-9.htm">Revelation 18:9-11</a> Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her. / In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.” / And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo—</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Their heart cried to the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give yourself no rest; let not the apple of your eye cease.heart<a href="/psalms/119-145.htm">Psalm 119:145</a> KOPH. I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.<a href="/isaiah/26-16.htm">Isaiah 26:16,17</a> LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them… <a href="/hosea/7-14.htm">Hosea 7:14</a> And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.O wall<a href="/lamentations/2-8.htm">Lamentations 2:8</a> The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.<a href="/habakkuk/2-11.htm">Habakkuk 2:11</a> For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.let tears<a href="/lamentations/1-2.htm">Lamentations 1:2,16</a> She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies… <a href="/lamentations/3-48.htm">Lamentations 3:48,49</a> Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people… <a href="/psalms/119-136.htm">Psalm 119:136</a> Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.the apple.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/songs/8-5.htm">Apple</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-35.htm">Cease</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-48.htm">Cried</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-15.htm">Daughter</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-4.htm">Eye</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-11.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-2.htm">Night</a> <a href="/psalms/94-13.htm">Respite</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-3.htm">Rest</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-32.htm">River</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-45.htm">Run</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-11.htm">Tears</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-4.htm">Thyself</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-8.htm">Wall</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-13.htm">Zion</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/joel/1-12.htm">Apple</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-22.htm">Cease</a> <a href="/lamentations/4-15.htm">Cried</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-48.htm">Daughter</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-48.htm">Eye</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-19.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-19.htm">Night</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-49.htm">Respite</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-49.htm">Rest</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-1.htm">River</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-48.htm">Run</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-48.htm">Tears</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-43.htm">Thyself</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-5.htm">Wall</a> <a href="/lamentations/4-2.htm">Zion</a><div class="vheading2">Lamentations 2</div>1. <a href="/lamentations/2-1.htm">Jeremiah laments the misery of Jerusalem</a> 20. <a href="/lamentations/2-20.htm">He complains thereof to God</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/lamentations/2.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/lamentations/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/lamentations/2.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. This phrase reflects the deep anguish and desperation of the people of Jerusalem during the Babylonian siege and subsequent destruction. The act of crying out to the Lord is a common biblical response in times of distress, seen in passages like <a href="/exodus/2-23.htm">Exodus 2:23-25</a>, where the Israelites groan under Egyptian bondage. It signifies a recognition of God as the ultimate source of help and deliverance. Historically, this period was marked by intense suffering, as the Babylonian conquest led to the destruction of the temple and the city, fulfilling prophecies such as those in <a href="/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Jeremiah 25:11</a>. Theologically, this cry can be seen as an acknowledgment of sin and a plea for mercy, aligning with the broader biblical theme of repentance and restoration.O wall of the Daughter of Zion, The "Daughter of Zion" is a poetic term for Jerusalem, emphasizing its personification as a vulnerable and beloved city. The wall represents both physical protection and the spiritual state of the people. In ancient Near Eastern culture, city walls were crucial for defense, and their breach symbolized defeat and exposure. The lament over the wall underscores the city's desolation and the people's loss of security. This imagery is echoed in <a href="/isaiah/62-6.htm">Isaiah 62:6-7</a>, where watchmen are placed on Jerusalem's walls to pray continually for its restoration, highlighting the importance of intercession and vigilance.let your tears run down like a river day and night. The metaphor of tears flowing like a river conveys unceasing sorrow and mourning. In the context of Lamentations, this reflects the profound grief over the destruction and the people's suffering. Rivers in the Bible often symbolize abundance and life, but here, the abundance is of tears, indicating overwhelming grief. This imagery is reminiscent of <a href="/psalms/42-3.htm">Psalm 42:3</a>, where tears are described as food day and night, illustrating deep emotional pain. The call for continuous weeping also serves as a form of lamentation, a key aspect of Hebrew worship and expression of faith in times of crisis.Give yourself no relief, This phrase suggests a deliberate choice to remain in a state of mourning and repentance. In the cultural context of ancient Israel, mourning was often expressed through fasting, wearing sackcloth, and sitting in ashes, as seen in the story of Job (<a href="/job/2-8.htm">Job 2:8</a>). The lack of relief indicates a period of intense reflection and acknowledgment of sin, aligning with the prophetic calls for repentance found throughout the Old Testament, such as in <a href="/joel/2-12.htm">Joel 2:12-13</a>. This ongoing lament is a plea for God’s intervention and a reminder of the consequences of turning away from Him.and your eyes no rest. The instruction for the eyes to find no rest emphasizes the depth of sorrow and the urgency of the situation. In biblical literature, sleeplessness often accompanies distress and divine encounters, as seen in the story of Jacob wrestling with God (<a href="/genesis/32-24.htm">Genesis 32:24</a>). The lack of rest signifies a relentless pursuit of God's attention and mercy. This continuous state of vigilance and prayer is echoed in the New Testament, where believers are encouraged to pray without ceasing (<a href="/1_thessalonians/5-17.htm">1 Thessalonians 5:17</a>), highlighting the importance of persistent faith and reliance on God in times of trouble.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/t/the_daughter_of_zion.htm">The Daughter of Zion</a> This term is a poetic reference to the city of Jerusalem and its inhabitants. It personifies the city as a daughter, emphasizing its relationship with God and its current state of distress. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_wall_of_the_daughter_of_zion.htm">The Wall of the Daughter of Zion</a> Symbolizes the protection and strength of Jerusalem, which has been breached and destroyed, leading to the city's lament. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The Lord</a> The covenant God of Israel, to whom the people cry out in their distress, seeking mercy and restoration. 4. <a href="/topical/t/the_cry_of_the_heart.htm">The Cry of the Heart</a> Represents the deep, emotional plea of the people of Jerusalem as they face the consequences of their disobedience and the resulting destruction. 5. <a href="/topical/t/tears_like_a_river.htm">Tears Like a River</a> A vivid image of continuous mourning and repentance, indicating the depth of sorrow and the need for persistent prayer.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_power_of_persistent_prayer.htm">The Power of Persistent Prayer</a> Just as the people of Jerusalem are urged to cry out without ceasing, believers today are encouraged to persist in prayer, especially in times of distress. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_genuine_repentance.htm">The Importance of Genuine Repentance</a> The tears of the Daughter of Zion symbolize true repentance. Believers are called to examine their hearts and turn back to God with sincerity. <a href="/topical/g/god's_faithfulness_in_times_of_judgment.htm">God's Faithfulness in Times of Judgment</a> Even in judgment, God remains faithful. Understanding His character helps believers trust in His ultimate plan for restoration. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_community_in_lament.htm">The Role of Community in Lament</a> The collective cry of the people highlights the importance of community support and shared lament in times of crisis. <a href="/topical/h/hope_beyond_despair.htm">Hope Beyond Despair</a> While Lamentations is a book of sorrow, it also points to the hope of redemption. Believers can find comfort in God's promises of future restoration.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_lamentations_2.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Lamentations 2</a> <a href="/q/how_does_psalm_60_1_fit_god's_mercy.htm">Since Psalm 60:1 portrays God as angry and distant, how does this align with the Bible's broader portrayal of His mercy and love?</a> <a href="/q/why_does_god_harden_hearts_if_he_saves.htm">If God wants all to be saved (1 Timothy 2:4), why does He deliberately harden people's hearts (Romans 9:18)?</a> <a href="/q/why_do_the_faithful_suffer_severely.htm">(Psalm 44:17-19) How is it consistent with other biblical texts that the righteous suffer so severely despite remaining faithful?</a> <a href="/q/psalm_87_7__how_are_all_'springs'_in_zion.htm">Psalm 87:7 - In what sense are all 'springs' in Zion, given that historically rivers and water sources are not exclusive to Jerusalem?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/lamentations/2.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(18) Their heart.--The possessive pronoun does not refer to any immediate antecedent, but points, with a wild abruptness, to the mourners of Zion. Yet more boldly their cry is an appeal to the "wall" of Zion (comp. <a href="/lamentations/2-8.htm" title="The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he has stretched out a line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.">Lamentations 2:8</a>, and <a href="/isaiah/14-31.htm" title="Howl, O gate; cry, O city; you, whole Palestina, are dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.">Isaiah 14:31</a>), to take up its lamentation, as though it were a human mourner.Like a river.--Better, like a torrent.The apple of thine eye.--Literally, "the daughter," as in the English phrase, the "pupil" of the eye.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/lamentations/2.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 18. - Their heart cried unto the Lord, etc. "Their heart" can only mean "the heart of the people of Jerusalem." For the expression, comp. <a href="/psalms/84-2.htm">Psalm 84:2</a>, "My heart and my flesh cry aloud to the living God." To avoid the rather startling prosopopoeia in the next clause, Thenius supposes a corruption in the group of letters rendered "wall," and attaches the corrected word to the first clause, rendering thus: "Their heart crieth unto the Lord in vain; O daughter of Zion, let tears run down," etc. Another resource, which also involves an emendation, is that of Ewald, "Cry with all thy heart, O wall of the daughter of Zion." O wall, etc. The prosepopoeia is surprising, but is only a degree more striking than that of ver. 8 and <a href="/lamentations/1-4.htm">Lamentations 1:4</a>. In <a href="/isaiah/14-31.htm">Isaiah 14:31</a> we find an equally strong one, "Howl, O gate." Most probably, however, there is something wrong in the text; the following verses seem to refer to the daughter of Zion. Bickell reads thus: "Cry aloud unto the Lord, O virgin daughter of Zion." Like a river; rather, like a torrent. Give thyself no rest. The word rendered "rest" means properly the stiffness produced by cold. <a href="/commentaries/lamentations/2-18.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>The hearts [of the people] לִבָּ֖ם (lib·bām) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3820.htm">Strong's 3820: </a> The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre cry out צָעַ֥ק (ṣā·‘aq) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6817.htm">Strong's 6817: </a> To shriek, to proclaim to אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to the Lord. אֲדֹנָ֑י (’ă·ḏō·nāy) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_136.htm">Strong's 136: </a> The Lord O wall חוֹמַ֣ת (ḥō·w·maṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2346.htm">Strong's 2346: </a> A wall of protection of the Daughter בַּת־ (baṯ-) Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1323.htm">Strong's 1323: </a> A daughter of Zion, צִ֠יּוֹן (ṣî·yō·wn) Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6726.htm">Strong's 6726: </a> Zion -- a mountain in Jerusalem, also a name for Jerusalem let your tears דִּמְעָה֙ (dim·‘āh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1832.htm">Strong's 1832: </a> Tears (of one weeping) run down הוֹרִ֨ידִי (hō·w·rî·ḏî) Verb - Hifil - Imperative - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3381.htm">Strong's 3381: </a> To come or go down, descend like a river כַנַּ֤חַל (ḵan·na·ḥal) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5158.htm">Strong's 5158: </a> A stream, a winter torrent, a, valley, a shaft day יוֹמָ֣ם (yō·w·mām) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3119.htm">Strong's 3119: </a> Daytime, by day and night. וָלַ֔יְלָה (wā·lay·lāh) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3915.htm">Strong's 3915: </a> A twist, night, adversity Give תִּתְּנִ֤י (tit·tə·nî) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5414.htm">Strong's 5414: </a> To give, put, set yourself no אַֽל־ (’al-) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_408.htm">Strong's 408: </a> Not relief, פוּגַת֙ (p̄ū·ḡaṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6314.htm">Strong's 6314: </a> Benumbing, cessation and your eyes עֵינֵֽךְ׃ (‘ê·nêḵ) Noun - common singular construct | second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5869.htm">Strong's 5869: </a> An eye, a fountain no אַל־ (’al-) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_408.htm">Strong's 408: </a> Not rest. תִּדֹּ֖ם (tid·dōm) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1826.htm">Strong's 1826: </a> To be dumb, to be astonished, to stop, to perish <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/lamentations/2-18.htm">Lamentations 2:18 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/lamentations/2-18.htm">Lamentations 2:18 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/lamentations/2-18.htm">Lamentations 2:18 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/lamentations/2-18.htm">Lamentations 2:18 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/lamentations/2-18.htm">Lamentations 2:18 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/lamentations/2-18.htm">Lamentations 2:18 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/lamentations/2-18.htm">Lamentations 2:18 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/lamentations/2-18.htm">Lamentations 2:18 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/lamentations/2-18.htm">Lamentations 2:18 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/lamentations/2-18.htm">Lamentations 2:18 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-18.htm">OT Prophets: Lamentations 2:18 Their heart cried to the Lord: wall (Lam. 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