Lamentations 2:11 “My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured ou…”

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

World English Bible

My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My bile is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.

American Standard Version

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

Geneva Bible 1599

Mine eyes doe saile with teares: my bowels swell: my liuer is powred vpon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the children and sucklings swoone in the streetes of the citie.

Darby Translation

Mine eyes are consumed with tears, my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the ruin of the daughter of my people; because infant and suckling swoon in the streets of the city.

Young's Literal Translation

Consumed by tears have been my eyes, Troubled have been my bowels, Poured out to the earth hath been my liver, For the breach of the daughter of my people; In infant and suckling being feeble, In the broad places of the city,

Bible in Basic English

My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

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Cross references

“eyes”

Lamentations 1:16 Lamentations 3:48–51 Psalm 6:7 Psalm 31:9 1 Samuel 30:4 Psalm 69:3

Lamentations 1:16 · BSB

For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.

Lamentations 3:48–51 · BSB

Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Psalm 6:7 · BSB

My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.

Psalm 31:9 · BSB

Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.

1 Samuel 30:4 · BSB

So David and the troops with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no strength left to weep.

Psalm 69:3 · BSB

I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

“my bowels”

Lamentations 1:20 Jeremiah 4:19

Lamentations 1:20 · BSB

See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.

Jeremiah 4:19 · BSB

My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.

“my liver”

Job 16:13 Psalm 22:14

Job 16:13 · BSB

His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

Psalm 22:14 · BSB

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

“for”

Isaiah 22:4 Jeremiah 14:17 Lamentations 4:10 Jeremiah 8:19–22 Jeremiah 9:1

Isaiah 22:4 · BSB

Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Jeremiah 14:17 · BSB

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.

Lamentations 4:10 · BSB

The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 8:19–22 · BSB

Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreig…

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.

“because”

Luke 23:29 Lamentations 2:19 Lamentations 2:20 Lamentations 4:3 Lamentations 4:4 Lamentations 4:9

Luke 23:29 · BSB

Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’

Lamentations 2:19 · BSB

Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corn…

Lamentations 2:20 · BSB

Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Lamentations 4:3 · BSB

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

Lamentations 4:4 · BSB

The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

Lamentations 4:9 · BSB

Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.

Also

Jeremiah 44:7

Jeremiah 44:7 · BSB

So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant?

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

In context

10The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

12They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.

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