My eye runs down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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Gregory The Dialogist
AD 604
Differently to be admonished are those who deplore sins of deed and those who deplore sins of thought. For those who deplore sins of deed are to be admonished that perfected lamentations should wash out consummated evils, lest they be bound by a greater debt of perpetrated deed than they pay in tears of satisfaction for it. For it is written, “He has given us drink in tears by measure,” which means that each person’s soul should in its penitence drink the tears of compunction to such extent as it remembers itself to have been dried up from God through sins. They are to be admonished to bring back their past offenses incessantly before their eyes and so to live that these may not have to be viewed by the strict judge.
Hence David, when he prayed, saying, “Turn away your eyes from my sins,” had said also a little before, “My fault is ever before me,” as if to say, I plead with you not to regard my sin, since I myself cease not to regard it. Thus also the Lord says through the prophet, “A...
It must 'be observed here that the three Verses 46-48 (according to some scriptural exegetes) ought to be placed before the Verses 43-45. So then the Hebrew letter "Phe" would be placed before the letter "Am", according to an accustomed order.
