Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

New American Standard Bible

You have fed them with the bread of tears,
And You have made them to drink tears in large measure.

King James Version

Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

Holman Bible

You fed them the bread of tears
and gave them a full measure
of tears to drink.

International Standard Version

You fed them tears as their food, and caused them to drink a full measure of tears.

A Conservative Version

Thou have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

American Standard Version

Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.

Amplified


You have fed them the bread of tears,
And You have made them drink [bitter] tears in abundance.

Darby Translation

Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure:

Julia Smith Translation

Thou gavest them to eat the bread of tears, and thou wilt give them to drink in tears by measure.

King James 2000

You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You have fed them [the] bread of tears; you have given them tears to drink in full measure.

Modern King James verseion

You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, yea thou hast given them plenteousness of tears to drink.

NET Bible

You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.

New Heart English Bible

You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

The Emphasized Bible

Thou hast fed them with the food of tears, And hast caused them to drink the water of weeping in threefold abundance.

Webster

Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

World English Bible

You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.

References

Easton

Verse Info

Context Readings

Restore Us, O God

4 O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people? 5 You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure. 6 You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.

Cross References

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?

Isaiah 30:20

And though the Lord will give you the bread of trouble and the water of grief, you will no longer put your teacher on one side, but you will see your teacher:

Job 6:7

My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.

Ezekiel 4:16-17

And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:

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