For how can I go back to my father if the lad is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would come upon my father.”
Lamentations 3:51 - Revised Standard Version my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the maidens of my city. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Mine eye affecteth mine heart Because of all the daughters of my city. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition My eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the maidens [and the daughter-towns] of my city [Jerusalem]. American Standard Version (1901) Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. Common English Bible My eyes hurt me because of what’s happened to my city’s daughters. Catholic Public Domain Version AIN. My eye has exhausted my soul over every one of the daughters of my city. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. |
For how can I go back to my father if the lad is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would come upon my father.”
therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: “Behold, I will punish them; the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;
And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their wickedness upon them.
If I go out into the field, behold, those slain by the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, the diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land, and have no knowledge.’ ”
And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and every one shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.’
“The Lord is in the right, for I have rebelled against his word; but hear, all you peoples, and behold my suffering; my maidens and my young men have gone into captivity.
My eyes are spent with weeping; my soul is in tumult; my heart is poured out in grief because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babes faint in the streets of the city.
In the dust of the streets lie the young and the old; my maidens and my young men have fallen by the sword; in the day of thy anger thou hast slain them, slaughtering without mercy.
“I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause;