Instead of the letter ayin preceding the letter peh, the order is reversed. The peh precedes the ayin. Similarly the letter ayin is not only a letter, it is a word also. The spies reversed the alphabet of Reality. They wrote their own false film script and then they saw what they had said.
Tears wash the eye clean, purifying the perception of the world.
Just as tears purify the physical eye, expelling dust and foreign bodies, so tears expel the detritus of false perception. Spy I spy with my little eye. It doesn't see very far. It wants to see confusion, It wants to wish upon a star. On the ninth of Av we are supposed to cry over the destruction of the two Holy Temples and all the other tragedies that have befallen our people.