Lamentations 3:48
46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- KJV
- Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- WEB
- My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- ASV
- Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- DARBY
- Mine eye runneth down with streams of water for the ruin of the daughter of my people.
- BLB
- Streams of water run down my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people!
- ÅB
- Bekker av tårer rinner fra mitt øye fordi mitt folks datter er gått under.
- OTB
- Strømmer av tårer renner fra mine øyne på grunn av ødeleggelsen av min folkedatter.
- B1930
- Bekker av tårer rinner fra mitt øie fordi mitt folks datter er gått under.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 9:18
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Read in contextLamentations 2:11
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.
Read in contextJeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Read in contextPsalms 119:136
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
Read in contextLamentations 1:16
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
Read in contextJeremiah 13:17
But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD’s flock is carried away captive.
Read in contextJeremiah 4:19
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Read in contextRomans 9:1–3
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
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