let tears: Lam 1:2, Lam 1:16, Lam 3:48-49; Psa 119:136; Jer 4:31, Jer 9:1, Jer 9:17-18, Jer 13:17, Jer 14:17
the apple: Bath ayin which sometimes means the pupil of the eye, seems here to denote tears, the produce of the eye; and therefore elegantly termed the daughter of the eye.