Lamentations 3:48 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 3:48

Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

KJV

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ASV

Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

WEB

Streams of tears flow from my eyes over 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.

DBT

Mine eye runneth down with streams of water for the ruin of the daughter of my people.

About this book

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Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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19 verses on the floor

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.
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!
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 9:18
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 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.

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): My eye runs down with rivers of water, so abundant was their weeping; it trickles down and ceases not, so constant was their weeping, without any intermission, there being no relaxation of their miseries. The distemper was in continual extremity, and they had no better day.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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LAM 3:48JER 9:1 ISA 22:4
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
LAM 3:48JER 9:18 JER 9:1
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
LAM 3:48LAM 2:18 LAM 1:16
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
LAM 3:48JER 9:1 JER 13:17
LAM 3:48JER 4:19 HAB 3:16
LAM 3:48LAM 2:18 PSA 119:145
LAM 3:48JER 9:1 LAM 2:11
LAM 3:48LAM 2:11 LAM 1:20

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