God’s Justice
Lamentations 3:51
In 11 translations
- BSB
- My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
- KJV
- Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.mine heart: Heb. my soulbecause…: or, more than all
- WEB
- My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
- ASV
- Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
- LSV
- My eye affects my soul, || Because of all the daughters of my city.
- YLT
- My eye affecteth my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city.
- DBY
- Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
- DRC
- Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
- GNV
- Mine eye breaketh mine heart because of all the daughters of my citie.
- JPS
- Mine eye affected my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
- LXXE
- Mine eye shall prey upon my soul, because of all the daughters of the city.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- עֵינִי֙ עֽוֹלְלָ֣ה לְנַפְשִׁ֔י מִכֹּ֖ל בְּנ֥וֹת עִירִֽי׃
- LXX-Br
- Ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου ἐπιφυλλιεῖ ἐπὶ τὴν ψυχήν μου παρὰ πάσας θυγατέρας πόλεως.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
PoetryAlphabetAffect; AffectionHeart, Character of the RenewedLamentations, Book ofMurmuringPoetry, HebrewAcrosticHeartWar
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Jeremiah 19:9I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
- Luke 19:41–44As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you when your…
- Lamentations 5:11Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
- Lamentations 2:21Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
- Jeremiah 14:18If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”
- 1 Samuel 30:3–4When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive. So David and the troops with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no strength left…
- Lamentations 1:18The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.
- Jeremiah 4:19–21My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle. Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for…
- Jeremiah 11:22So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.
- Jeremiah 14:16And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own…
- Genesis 44:34For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).