Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

For thou shall forget thy misery. Thou shall remember it as waters that are passed away.

New American Standard Bible

“For you would forget your trouble,
As waters that have passed by, you would remember it.

King James Version

Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

Holman Bible

For you will forget your suffering,
recalling it only as waters that have flowed by.

International Standard Version

You'll forget your suffering; you'll remember it like water that has evaporated.

American Standard Version

For thou shalt forget thy misery; Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away,

Amplified


“For you would forget your trouble;
You would remember it as waters that have passed by.

Bible in Basic English

For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:

Darby Translation

For thou shalt forget misery; as waters that are passed away shalt thou remember it;

Julia Smith Translation

For thou shalt forget toil, then shalt remember as waters they passed away.

King James 2000

Because you shall forget your misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

Lexham Expanded Bible

For you yourself will forget your misery; you will remember [it] as water [that] has flowed past.

Modern King James verseion

for you shall forget your misery, and you shall remember it as waters that pass away.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Then shouldest thou forget thy misery, and think no more upon it, than upon the waters that run by.

NET Bible

For you will forget your trouble; you will remember it like water that has flowed away.

New Heart English Bible

for you shall forget your misery. You shall remember it as waters that are passed away.

The Emphasized Bible

For, now, shalt thou forget, sorrow, Like waters passed away, shalt thou remember it.

Webster

Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

World English Bible

for you shall forget your misery. You shall remember it as waters that are passed away.

Youngs Literal Translation

For thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou rememberest.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁכח שׁכח 
Shakach 
Usage: 102

and remember
זכר 
Zakar 
Usage: 231

it as waters
מים 
Mayim 
Usage: 581

Context Readings

Confess Your Sin And Be Forgiven

15 Surely then thou shall lift up thy face without spot. Yea, thou shall be steadfast, and shall not fear. 16 For thou shall forget thy misery. Thou shall remember it as waters that are passed away. 17 And [thy] life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning.

Cross References

Isaiah 65:16

so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth, and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth. Because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.

Genesis 9:11

And I will establish my covenant with you. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, nor shall there be a flood any more to destroy the earth.

Genesis 41:51

And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, for, God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

Job 6:15

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away,

Job 22:11

or darkness, so that thou cannot see, and abundance of waters cover thee.

Proverbs 31:7

Let him drink, and forget his need, and remember his misery no more.

Ecclesiastes 5:20

For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God answers [him] in the joy of his heart.

Isaiah 12:1-2

And in that day thou shall say, I will give thanks to thee, O LORD, for though thou were angry with me. Thine anger is turned away and thou comfort me.

Isaiah 54:4

Fear not, for thou shall not be ashamed. Neither be thou confounded, for thou shall not be put to shame. For thou shall forget the shame of thy youth. And the reproach of thy widowhood thou shall remember no more.

Isaiah 54:9

For this is [as] the waters of Noah to me. For as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with thee, nor rebuke thee.

John 16:21

When a woman brings forth she has pain because her hour has come. But when she has given birth to the child she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a man was born into the world.

Revelation 7:14-17

And I said to him, My lord, thou know. And he said to me, These are those coming out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

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