Lamentations 3:48 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴⁸ My eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of my people.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁸ Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water For the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁸ My eyes overflow with streams of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁸ Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Common English Bible

⁴⁸ Streams of water pour from my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁸ PHE. My eye has brought forth streams of water at the contrition of the daughter of my people.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁸ Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 3:48 Cross References

Psalm 119:136

My eyes shed streams of tears because your law is not kept.

Psalm 137:1

By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down, and there we wept when we remembered Zion.

Jeremiah 13:17

But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.

Jeremiah 14:17

You shall say to them this word: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is struck down with a crushing blow, with a very grievous wound.

Jeremiah 4:19

My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent, for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Jeremiah 9:1

O that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Jeremiah 9:18

let them quickly raise a dirge over us, so that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids flow with water.

Lamentations 1:16

For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for a comforter is far from me, one to revive my courage; my children are desolate, for the enemy has prevailed.

Lamentations 2:11

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.

Lamentations 2:18

Cry aloud to the Lord! O wall of daughter Zion! Let tears stream down like a torrent day and night! Give yourself no rest, your eyes no respite!