Jeremiah 14:17 “You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day…”

Jeremiah 14:17

You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

World English Bible

“You shall say this word to them: “‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

American Standard Version

And thou shalt say this word unto them, Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore thou shalt say this worde vnto them, Let mine eyes drop downe teares night and day without ceasing: for the virgine daughter of my people is destroyed with a great destruction, and with a sore grieuous plague.

Darby Translation

And thou shalt say this word unto them: Let mine eyes run down with tears, night and day, and not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

Young's Literal Translation

And thou hast said unto them this word: Tears come down mine eyes night and day, And they do not cease, For, [with] a great breach, Broken hath been the virgin daughter of my people, A very grievous stroke.

Bible in Basic English

And you are to say this word to them, Let my eyes be streaming with water night and day, and let it not be stopped; for the virgin daughter of my people is wounded with a great wound, with a very bitter blow.

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Cross references

“let mine”

Jeremiah 8:21 Jeremiah 9:1 Jeremiah 13:17 Psalm 119:136 Lamentations 2:18 Jeremiah 8:18

Jeremiah 8:21 · BSB

For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.

Jeremiah 9:1 · BSB

Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 13:17 · BSB

But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

Psalm 119:136 · BSB

My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.

Lamentations 2:18 · BSB

The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.

Jeremiah 8:18 · BSB

My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

“for”

Lamentations 2:13 Isaiah 37:22 Amos 5:2 Lamentations 1:15

Lamentations 2:13 · BSB

What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?

Isaiah 37:22 · BSB

this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.

Amos 5:2 · BSB

“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”

Lamentations 1:15 · BSB

The Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst; He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. Like grapes in a winepress, the Lord has trampled the Virgin Daughter of Judah.

“with a very”

Micah 6:13 Psalm 39:10 Jeremiah 30:14 Jeremiah 30:15

Micah 6:13 · BSB

Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.

Psalm 39:10 · BSB

Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.

Jeremiah 30:14 · BSB

All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.

Jeremiah 30:15 · BSB

Why do you cry out over your wound? Your pain has no cure! Because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins I have done these things to you.

Also

Jeremiah 10:19

Jeremiah 10:19 · BSB

Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.

18If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”

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