Lamentations 3:51
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.”
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BSBPD
“My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“My eye affecteth my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 3:51 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 44:34For 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 30:3When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.
- 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 11:22So 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 14:16And 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.
- Jeremiah 14:18If 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.’”
- Jeremiah 19:9I 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 1:18The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.
- Lamentations 2:21Both 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 5:11Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
- Luke 19:41As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
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