Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

I am weary with my sighing;
Every night I make my bed swim,
I dissolve my couch with my tears.

King James Version

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

Holman Bible

I am weary from my groaning;
with my tears I dampen my pillow
and drench my bed every night.

International Standard Version

I am weary from my groaning. Every night my couch is drenched with tears, my bed is soaked through.

A Conservative Version

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I make my bed to swim. I water my couch with my tears.

American Standard Version

I am weary with my groaning; Every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

Amplified


I am weary with my groaning;
Every night I soak my bed with tears,
I drench my couch with my weeping.

Bible in Basic English

The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.

Darby Translation

I am wearied with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I dissolve my couch with my tears.

Julia Smith Translation

I was wearied with my sighing all the night I shall make my bed to swim with my tears; I shall make my couch to flow.

King James 2000

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed wet with tears; I water my couch with my tears.

Lexham Expanded Bible

I am weary with my groaning; {I flood} my bed every night. With my tears {I drench} my couch.

Modern King James verseion

I am weary in my groaning; all the night I make my bed swim; I melt my couch with my tears.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I am weary of my groaning; every night wash I my bed, and water my couch with my tears.

NET Bible

I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; my tears saturate the cushion beneath me.

New Heart English Bible

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

The Emphasized Bible

I am weary with my sighing, I flood, through the whole night, my couch, - With my tears, I cause, my bed, to dissolve:

Webster

I am weary with my groaning; all the night I make my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

World English Bible

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

Youngs Literal Translation

I have been weary with my sighing, I meditate through all the night on my bed, With my tear my couch I waste.

References

Easton

Watsons

Context Readings

A Prayer For Mercy

5 For there is no mention of You in death;
In Sheol who will give You thanks?
6 I am weary with my sighing;
Every night I make my bed swim,
I dissolve my couch with my tears.
7 My eye has wasted away with grief;
It has become old because of all my adversaries.


Cross References

Psalm 69:3

I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched;
My eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 38:9

Lord, all my desire is before You;
And my sighing is not hidden from You.

Job 7:3

So am I allotted months of vanity,
And nights of trouble are appointed me.

Job 10:1

I loathe my own life;
I will give full vent to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 16:20

“My friends are my scoffers;
My eye weeps to God.

Job 23:2

“Even today my complaint is rebellion;
His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am a stranger with You,
A sojourner like all my fathers.

Psalm 77:2-9

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord;
In the night my hand was stretched out without weariness;
My soul refused to be comforted.

Psalm 88:9

My eye has wasted away because of affliction;
I have called upon You every day, O Lord;
I have spread out my hands to You.

Psalm 102:3-5

For my days have been consumed in smoke,
And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.

Psalm 143:4-7

Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me;
My heart is appalled within me.

Jeremiah 14:17

“You will say this word to them,
Let my eyes flow down with tears night and day,
And let them not cease;
For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow,
With a sorely infected wound.

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps bitterly in the night
And her tears are on her cheeks;
She has none to comfort her
Among all her lovers.
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
They have become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:16

“For these things I weep;
My eyes run down with water;
Because far from me is a comforter,
One who restores my soul.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy has prevailed.”

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail because of tears,
My spirit is greatly troubled;
My heart is poured out on the earth
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
When little ones and infants faint
In the streets of the city.

Lamentations 2:18-19

Their heart cried out to the Lord,
“O wall of the daughter of Zion,
Let your tears run down like a river day and night;
Give yourself no relief,
Let your eyes have no rest.

Lamentations 3:48-50

My eyes run down with streams of water
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Luke 7:38

and standing behind Him at His feet, weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and kept wiping them with the hair of her head, and kissing His feet and anointing them with the perfume.

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