Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 2:18

18 Their heart cried to the Lord , O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; give thy self no rest, let not the apple of thine eyes cease u.

They cried unto God seriously, though not sincerely, from their heart, though not with their whole heart; either by the Wall, or upon the Wall, or (which is judged most probable) by occasion of the breaches made in the Wall. Upon this he turnes his discourse to the Wall it self, and calls to it, or to those that were upon it, or near it incessantly to mourn. In the Heb. it is let not the daughter of thine eye cease, we call it the apple. The Latines, the Pupil, or Babe of the eye.

Marginal references: Jer. 14.1[illegible: 1 letter]. chap. 1.16.