Lamentations 3:48
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 3:48 in other translations
| BSB | Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
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| WEB | My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| ASV | Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| YLT | Rivulets of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| DARBY | Mine eye runneth down with streams of water for the ruin of the daughter of my people. |
| BBE | Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| Webster | My eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
What does Lamentations 3:48 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:46-48
46-48. Pe is put before Ain (La 3:43, 46), as in La 2:16, 17; 4:16, 17. (La 2:16.)
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 3:42-54
The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relief and succour from any but the Lord.
Lamentations 3:48 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 3:48
- Jeremiah 9:18
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
- Lamentations 2:11
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
- Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
- Psalms 119:136
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
- Lamentations 1:16
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
- Jeremiah 13:17
But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock is carried away captive.
- Jeremiah 4:19
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
- Romans 9:1-3
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
- Lamentations 2:18
Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
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Context
- Lamentations 3:47
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
- Lamentations 3:48
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Lamentations 3:49
Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Lamentations 3:48 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Ríos de aguas echan mis ojos, por el quebrantamiento de la hija de mi pueblo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Des ruisseaux d’eaux coulent de mes yeux à cause de la ruine de la fille de mon peuple. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Mit Wasserbächen rinnt mein Auge wegen der Zertrümmerung der Tochter meines Volkes. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Divisiones aquarum deduxit oculus meus, in contritione filiæ populi mei. |