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Lamentations 2:11

King James Version (KJV)

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Scripture focus

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.

Lamentations 2:11 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Lamentations 2:11

Theological / Devotional

My bowels. See on Lam. 1:20.

Liver. Literally, “the heavy organ.” The liver was thought by the ancients to be the heaviest of all the abdominal organs. Inasmuch as the viscera were considered to be the seat of the emotions, the “pouring out of the liver” is a striking figure indicating extreme emotional upheaval.

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