Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Lamentations 3 is built so that each set of three verses opens with the same successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet. That acrostic pattern gives the chapter a distinctive literary shape. It stands out all the more because the book as a whole is marked by deep mental anguish. Within that setting the verse voices Jeremiah's unceasing grief over his people's calamity. His eye sheds tears that keep flowing onward without pause or intermission.
Lamentations 3 is built so that each set of three verses opens with the same successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet. That acrostic pattern gives the chapter a distinctive literary shape. It stands out all the more because the book as a whole is marked by deep mental anguish. Within that setting the verse voices Jeremiah's unceasing grief over his people's calamity. His eye sheds tears that keep flowing onward without pause or intermission.