Lamentations 2:11
King James Version
11 Jun 2026
“Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.”
מֵעֶה
used only in plural the intestines, or (collectively) the abdomen, figuratively, sympathy; by implication, a vest; by extension the stomach, the uterus (or of men, the seat of generation), the heart (figuratively)
שָׁפַךְ
it has been poured out
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שָׁפַךְ
to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e. to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc.); intensively, to sprawl out
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שֶׁבֶר
the brokenness of
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שֶׁבֶר
Break, ruin. Sheber. To shatter into pieces. A broken and contrite heart God will not despise. Brokenness before God is the pathway to wholeness.
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כָּלָה
they have failed
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כָּלָה
To be completed, to be finished. Kalah. It is finished. The word Jesus cried from the cross. The work of redemption was completely done.
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עַם
people/ my
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עַם
People, nation, folk. Am. You are My people and I am your God. This mutual belonging is the heart of the covenant.
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עַיִן
eyes/ my
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עַיִן
Eye, spring of water. Ayin. Open the eyes of my heart LORD. I lift my eyes to You who are enthroned in heaven.
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בַּת
the daughter of
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בַּת
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
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חָמַר
they are in turmoil
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חָמַר
properly, to boil up; hence, to ferment (with scum); to glow (with redness); to smear with pitch
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כָּבֵד
liver/ my
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כָּבֵד
the liver (as the heaviest of the viscera)
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קִרְיָה
a town
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קִרְיָה
building; a city
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עוֹלֵל
child
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עוֹלֵל
a suckling
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