Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
That our
And our eyelids flow with water.
King James Version
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Holman Bible
so that our eyes may overflow with tears,
our eyelids soaked with weeping.
International Standard Version
Let them hurry and lament for us. Let tears run down from our eyes, and let our eyelids flow with water.
A Conservative Version
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
American Standard Version
and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Amplified
“Let them hurry and take up a wailing for us,
That our eyes may shed tears
And our eyelids flow with water.
Bible in Basic English
Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.
Darby Translation
and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids pour forth waters.
Julia Smith Translation
And they shall hasten and lift up a lamentation for us, and our eyes shall go down with tears, and our eyelashes shall shake out waters.
King James 2000
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with water.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And let them hasten, and let them lift up wailing over us, so that our eyes may melt [with] tears, and our eyelids may flow [with] water.
Modern King James verseion
and let them make haste and take up a weeping for us, so that our eyes may run down with tears, and waters flow from our eyelids.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and sing a mourning song of you: that the tears may fall out of our eyes, and that our eyelids may gush out of water.
NET Bible
I said, "Indeed, let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us. Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes and our eyelids overflow with water.
New Heart English Bible
"and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
The Emphasized Bible
Yea let them make haste, and lift up over us a wailing, - That our eyes, may run down, with tears, And, our eyelashes, stream down with water; -
Webster
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
World English Bible
and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Youngs Literal Translation
And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow.
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 9:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Judah's Failures
17
Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, Consider ye and call for the mourning women that they may come and send for cunning women that they may come,
18
That our
And our eyelids flow with water.
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 14:17
Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Isaiah 22:4
Therefore I said, Leave me; I will weep bitterly; do not labour to comfort me of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth and wallow thyself in ashes; make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.
Jeremiah 9:10
Upon the mountains I will lift up weeping and wailing and lamentation upon the habitations of the wilderness because they are burned up, so that no one can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and even the beasts of the earth are fled; they are gone.
Jeremiah 9:20
Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth and teach your daughters wailing and each one her neighbour lamentation.
Jeremiah 13:17
But if ye will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret because of your pride; and weeping bitterly, my eyes shall be undone in tears because the LORD's flock was carried away captive.
Lamentations 1:2
Beth She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.
Lamentations 2:11
Caph My eyes fail with tears; my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people because the children and the sucklings faint in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 2:18
Tsade Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion; let tears run down like a river day and night; give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
Luke 19:41
And when he was come near, he beheld the city and wept over it,