Psalms 119:136
My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
BSB
ASV
Streams of water run down mine eyes, Because they observe not thy law. צ TSADHE.
KJV
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
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Ezekiel 9:4“Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”
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They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.
Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.
And I saw another angel ascending from the east, with the seal of the living God. And he called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to…
Then I saw the thrones, and those seated on them had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony of Jesus and for…
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Jeremiah 9:1Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
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But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
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Psalms 119:53Rage has taken hold of me because of the wicked who reject Your law.
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When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled out some hair from my head and beard, and sat down in horror.
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Jeremiah 14:17You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow,…
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For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes,.... That is, "out of" them; as the Syriac version: or, "mine eyes let down rivers of waters" (t); see Lam 3:48; that is, an abundance of tears, which flowed like a river; an hyperbolical expression, setting forth the excessiveness of grief.
