Parallel Verses

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.

A Conservative Version

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

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 you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be secure and will not fear. 16 “For you would forget your trouble,
As waters that have passed by, you would remember it.
17 And your life will be brighter than the noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

Cross References

Isaiah 65:16

So that he who blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of truth, and he who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten and are hidden from my eyes.

Genesis 9:11

I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."

Genesis 41:51

Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house."

Job 6:15

My brothers are treacherous as a torrent-bed, as torrential streams that pass away,

Job 22:11

or darkness, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

Proverbs 31:7

let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.

Ecclesiastes 5:20

For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.

Isaiah 12:1-2

You will say in that day: "I will give thanks to you, O LORD, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, that you might comfort me.

Isaiah 54:4

"Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

Isaiah 54:9

"This is like the days of Noah to me: as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, and will not rebuke you.

John 16:21

When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Revelation 7:14-17

I said to him, "Sir, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

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