Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.
New American Standard Bible
Because of all the daughters of my city.
King James Version
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
Holman Bible
because of the fate of all the women in my city.
International Standard Version
What I see grieves my soul because of all the young women of my city.
A Conservative Version
My eye stirs my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
American Standard Version
Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Amplified
My eyes [see things that] bring pain to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.
Darby Translation
Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Julia Smith Translation
Mine eye will glean for my soul for all the daughters of my city.
King James 2000
My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My eyes inflict my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
Modern King James verseion
My eye pains my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Mine eye breaketh my heart, because of all the daughters of my city.
NET Bible
What my eyes see grieves me -- all the suffering of the daughters in my city.
New Heart English Bible
My eyes bring my soul grief, because of all the daughters of my city.
The Emphasized Bible
Mine eye dealeth severely with my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Webster
My eye affecteth my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
World English Bible
My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Youngs Literal Translation
My eye affecteth my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city.
Interlinear
`ayin
`alal
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:51
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
50 Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven. 51 The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town. 52 They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird;
Cross References
Genesis 44:34
For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?
1 Samuel 30:3-4
And when David and his men came to the town, they saw that it had been burned down, and their wives and their sons and daughters had been made prisoners.
Jeremiah 4:19-21
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.
Jeremiah 11:22
So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will send punishment on them: the young men will be put to the sword; their sons and their daughters will come to death through need of food:
Jeremiah 14:16
And the people to whom they are prophets will be pushed out dead into the streets of Jerusalem, because there is no food, and because of the sword; and they will have no one to put their bodies into the earth, them or their wives or their sons or their daughters: for I will let loose their evil-doing on them.
Jeremiah 14:18
If I go out into the open country, there are those put to death by the sword! and if I go into the town, there are those who are diseased from need of food! for the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.
Jeremiah 19:9
I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.
Lamentations 1:18
The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.
Lamentations 2:21
The young men and the old are stretched on the earth in the streets; my virgins and my young men have been put to the sword: you have sent death on them in the day of your wrath, causing death without pity.
Lamentations 5:11
They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
Luke 19:41-44
And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it,