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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:136

In 11 translations

BSB
My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
KJV
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
WEB
Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don’t observe your law.
ASV
Streams of water run down mine eyes, Because they observe not thy law.
LSV
Streams of waters have come down my eyes, || Because they have not kept Your law!
YLT
Rivulets of waters have come down mine eyes, Because they have not kept Thy law!
DBY
Mine eyes run down with streams of water, because they keep not thy law.
DRC118:136
My eyes have sent forth springs of water: because they have not kept thy law.
GNV
Mine eyes gush out with riuers of water, because they keepe not thy Lawe.
JPS
Mine eyes run down with rivers of water, because they observe not Thy law.
LXXE118:136
Mine eyes have been bathed in streams of water, because I kept not thy law.

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Original-language editions

WLC
פַּלְגֵי־מַ֭יִם יָרְד֣וּ עֵינָ֑י עַ֝֗ל לֹא־שָׁמְר֥וּ תוֹרָתֶֽךָ׃
LXX-Br118:136
Διεξόδους ὑδάτων κατέβησαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου, ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἐφύλαξα τὸν νόμον σου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • 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.
  • 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.”
  • 1 Samuel 15:11“I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all that night.
  • Psalms 119:53Rage has taken hold of me because of the wicked who reject Your law.
  • Jeremiah 9:18Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.
  • Psalms 119:158I look on the faithless with loathing because they do not keep Your word.
  • 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, a severely grievous wound.
  • Luke 19:41As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
  • Romans 9:2–3I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,
  • Jeremiah 13:17But 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.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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