See the note on chap. Through the excess of the famine . Thou hast a flood of afflictions , a sea of troubles , an ocean of miseries. This probably only applied to the temple . I answer I do not know.
Tears are the produce of the eye , and are here elegantly termed the daughter of the eye .
Let not thy tears cease. Tears are most certainly meant. This seems to refer to Jerusalem besieged. That it was foretold that there should be such distress in the siege, - that mothers should be obliged to eat their own children , is evident enough from Lev. God has called terrors together to feast on Jerusalem , similar to the convocation of the people from all parts of the land to one of those annual festivals.