For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the suffering that would come upon my father.”
Lamentations 3:51 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 My eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the young women in my city. More versionsKing 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 boy is not with me? I fear to see the suffering that would come upon my father.”
therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: I am going to 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 thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword. There shall be no one to bury them—themselves, their wives, their sons, and their daughters—for I will pour out their wickedness upon them.”
If I go out into the field, look—those killed by the sword! And if I enter the city, look—those sick with famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade throughout the land and have no knowledge.
And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and all shall eat the flesh of their neighbors 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 young women and young men have gone into captivity.
My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people, because infants and babes faint in the streets of the city.
The young and the old are lying on the ground in the streets; my young women and my young men have fallen by the sword; in the day of your anger you have killed them, slaughtering without mercy.