John Gill Commentary Lamentations 3:49

"Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission," — Lamentations 3:49 (ASV)

Mine eye trickles down, and ceases not
From weeping, as the Targum: the prophet was continually weeping; the distresses of his people were always uppermost in his mind; and which so affected him, that it drew tears from his eyes, which constantly trickled down his cheeks: without any intermission ;
or, "without intermissions" ^F14 ; there were no stops or pauses in his grief, and in the expressions of it: or it may be rendered, "because [there were] no intermissions" ^F15 ; that is, of the miseries of his people; so Jarchi, ``because there were no changes and passing away;'' that is of evils; and to the same purpose the Targum, ``because there is none that intermits my distress, and speaks comforts to me.''

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FOOTNOTES:

• F14: (twgph Nyam) "a non intermissionibus", Montanus, Calvin; "sine intervallis", Cocceius.
• F15: "Eo quod nullae sunt intermissiones", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Tigurine version.