Mine eyes — This whole verse is but expressive of the prophets great affliction for the miseries come upon the Jews. He wept himself almost blind. Bowels — His passion had disturbed his bodily humours, that his bowels were troubled. Liver — His gall lying under his liver. All these are expressions of great affliction and sorrow. Swoon — During the famine, occasioned by the long siege.
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Lamentations 2:11
11 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 swoonf in the streets of the city.