Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
New American Standard Bible
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
King James Version
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Holman Bible
because of the destruction of my dear people.
International Standard Version
My eyes run with rivers of tears over the destruction of my cherished people.
A Conservative Version
My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
American Standard Version
Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Amplified
My eyes overflow with streams of tears
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people (Jerusalem).
Darby Translation
Mine eye runneth down with streams of water for the ruin of the daughter of my people.
Julia Smith Translation
Mine eye will bring down streams of water for the breaking of the daughter of my people.
King James 2000
My eye runs down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Channels of water run down my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Modern King James verseion
Streams of water run down my eye for the ruin of the daughter of my people.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Whole rivers of water gush out of mine eyes, for the great hurt of my people.
NET Bible
Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.
New Heart English Bible
Streams of tears run down from my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The Emphasized Bible
With streams of water, mine eye runneth down, over the grievous injury of the daughter of my people.
Webster
My eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
World English Bible
My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Youngs Literal Translation
Rivulets of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:48
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
47 Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction. 48 Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 My eyes are streaming without stopping, they have no rest,
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Cross References
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.
Psalm 119:136
Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.
Jeremiah 9:1
If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 9:18
Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.
Jeremiah 13:17
But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.
Lamentations 1:16
For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.
Lamentations 2:18
Let your cry go up to the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let your weeping be flowing down like a stream day and night; give yourself no rest, let not your eyes keep back the drops of sorrow.
Jeremiah 4:19
My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.
Romans 9:1-3
I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit,