Lamentations 3:48
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
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“Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Rivulets of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Lamentations 3:48 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 119:136My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
- Psalms 137:1By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
- Jeremiah 4:19My 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 9:1Oh, 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 9:18Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.
- Jeremiah 13:17But 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.
- Jeremiah 14:17You 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 1:16For 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 2:11My 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.
- Lamentations 2:18The 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.
- Romans 9:1I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.
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