Tafsiran Ratapan 3:51: Tze'enah Ure'enah & Rashi

“My eyes” [3:51]. My eyes have smeared my body that I, Jeremiah, have seen all this. That is to say, my family, which was important, should shed more tears than other families.

My eye has made me ugly, sorrowing over my soul, more than all the inhabitants of my city. Yirmiyahu was from a family of kohanim, and he said, “My eye, with its tears, sullied my face over my soul more than all the inhabitants of my city.”

Made me ugly. And expression of sullying, as in, “and sullied my radiance with dirt.”³⁷Iyov 16:15.

More than all the inhabitants of my city. My family has more reason to cry than all the families of the city, for it was chosen for sanctity and for the service of the Holy One, Blessed Is He, over all Yisroel.