Lamentations 3:48

New American Bible - revised edition

My eyes stream with tears over the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Cross References

Psalm 119:136

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

Psalm 137:1

By the rivers of Babylon there we sat weeping when we remembered Zion.

Jeremiah 13:17

If you do not listen to this in your pride, I will weep many tears in secret; My eyes will run with tears for the Lord’s flock, led away to exile.

Jeremiah 14:17

Speak to them this word: Let my eyes stream with tears night and day, without rest, Over the great destruction which overwhelms the virgin daughter of my people, over her incurable wound.

Jeremiah 4:19

My body! my body! how I writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart beats wildly, I cannot be still; For I myself have heard the blast of the horn, the battle cry.

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh, that I had in the wilderness a travelers’ lodging! That I might leave my people and depart from them. They are all adulterers, a band of traitors.

Jeremiah 9:18

The sound of the dirge is heard from Zion: We are ruined and greatly ashamed; We have left the land, given up our dwellings!

Lamentations 1:16

For these things I weep—My eyes! My eyes! They stream with tears! How far from me is anyone to comfort, anyone to restore my life. My children are desolate; the enemy has prevailed.”

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are spent with tears, my stomach churns; My bile is poured out on the ground at the brokenness of the daughter of my people, As children and infants collapse in the streets of the town.

Lamentations 2:18

Cry out to the Lord from your heart, wall of daughter Zion! Let your tears flow like a torrent day and night; Give yourself no rest, no relief for your eyes.