Lamentations 3:51
49 My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,
50 until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
52 Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
53 They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
- KJV
- Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
- WEB
- My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
- ASV
- Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
- DARBY
- Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
- BLB
- My eye bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
- ÅB
- Mitt øye volder min sjel smerte for alle min stads døtres skyld.
- OTB
- Det jeg ser bringer sorg til min sjel på grunn av alle døtrene i min by.
- B1930
- Mitt øie volder min sjel smerte for alle min stads døtres skyld.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 19:9
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.’
Read in contextLuke 19:41–44
As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
Read in context1 Samuel 30:3–4
When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.
Read in contextLamentations 2:21
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.
Read in contextJeremiah 14:16
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 evil upon them.
Read in contextJeremiah 14:18
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.’”
Read in contextJeremiah 4:19–21
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.
Read in contextJeremiah 11:22
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.
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