Lamentations 3:51 “My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city…”

Lamentations 3:51

My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

World English Bible

My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

American Standard Version

Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

Geneva Bible 1599

Mine eye breaketh mine heart because of all the daughters of my citie.

Darby Translation

Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

Young's Literal Translation

My eye affecteth my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city.

Bible in Basic English

The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.

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Cross references

“eye”

Luke 19:41–44 Jeremiah 4:19–21 Jeremiah 14:18 Genesis 44:34 1 Samuel 30:3 1 Samuel 30:4

Luke 19:41–44 · BSB

As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it

Jeremiah 4:19–21 · 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.

Jeremiah 14:18 · BSB

If 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.’”

Genesis 44:34 · BSB

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

1 Samuel 30:3 · BSB

When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.

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.

“mine heart”

Jeremiah 19:9 Lamentations 1:18 Lamentations 2:21 Lamentations 5:11 Jeremiah 11:22 Jeremiah 14:16

Jeremiah 19:9 · BSB

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’

Lamentations 1:18 · BSB

The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 2:21 · BSB

Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.

Lamentations 5:11 · BSB

Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

Jeremiah 11:22 · BSB

So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.

Jeremiah 14:16 · BSB

And 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 ev…

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

In context

50until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.

52Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.

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