Lamentations 3:48 “Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughte…”

Lamentations 3:48

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

World English Bible

My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

American Standard Version

Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Geneva Bible 1599

Mine eye casteth out riuers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Darby Translation

Mine eye runneth down with streams of water for the ruin of the daughter of my people.

Young's Literal Translation

Rivulets of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Bible in Basic English

Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Cross references

“Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Lamentations 2:11 Jeremiah 9:1 Jeremiah 9:18 Lamentations 2:18 Psalm 119:136 Jeremiah 4:19

Lamentations 2:11 · BSB

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.

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 9:18 · BSB

Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.

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.

Psalm 119:136 · BSB

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

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.

Also

Lamentations 1:16

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.

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

In context

47Panic and pitfall have come upon us— devastation and destruction.

49My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,

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