Lamentations 3:48

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

פַּלְגֵי־מַ֙יִם֙ תֵּרַ֣ד עֵינִ֔י עַל־שֶׁ֖בֶר בַּת־עַמִּֽי׃

Transliteration

palgê-mayim tērad ʿênî for šeber bat-ʿammî

Grammar Details

*palgê*: noun, masculine plural construct - streams of
*mayim*: noun, masculine plural - water
*tērad*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular - runs down
*ʿênî*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my eye
*šeber*: noun, masculine singular construct - destruction of
*bat*: noun, feminine singular construct - daughter of
*ʿammî*: noun, masculine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my people

Word Meanings

*palgê*: streams of/channels of/rivulets of
*tērad*: runs down/flows down
*šeber*: destruction of/breaking of/ruin of
*bat*-*ʿammî*: daughter of my people/my dear people

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Referenced Verses

Jer 9:1 : 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!
Lam 2:11 : 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Lam 2:18 : 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 respite; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
Ps 119:136 : 136 Streams of water run down mine eyes, Because they observe not thy law.
Jer 9:18 : 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.
Jer 13:17 : 17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah's flock is taken captive.
Lam 1:16 : 16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.
Jer 4:19 : 19 My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace; because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Rom 9:1-3 : 1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren's sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Lam 3:49-51
3 verses
88%
49Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
50Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven.
51Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Lam 2:11
83%
11Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Jer 9:1
82%
1Oh 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!
Jer 14:17
82%
17And thou shalt say this word unto them, Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.
Lam 1:15-18
4 verses
80%
15The Lord hath set at nought all my mighty men in the midst of me; He hath called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men: The Lord hath trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.
16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.
17Zion spreadeth forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; Jehovah hath commanded concerning Jacob, that they that are round about him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.
18Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
Isa 22:4-5
2 verses
80%
4Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
5For it is a day of discomfiture, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.
Jer 9:18-19
2 verses
79%
18and 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.
19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.
Lam 3:47
78%
47Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.
Ps 119:136
77%
136Streams of water run down mine eyes, Because they observe not thy law.
Lam 2:18
77%
18Their 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 respite; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
Ps 6:7
74%
7Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.
Jer 8:21
74%
21For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me.
Lam 1:12
74%
12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is brought upon me, Wherewith Jehovah hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.
Jer 4:20
73%
20Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains in a moment.
Jer 6:26
73%
26O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.
Lam 4:6
73%
6For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid upon her.
Jer 8:19
72%
19Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: Is not Jehovah in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities?
Job 16:16
72%
16My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Job 3:24
72%
24For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.
Ps 31:9
72%
9Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.
Lam 5:17
71%
17For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
Lam 2:8
71%
8Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; And he hath made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.
Ps 119:123
71%
123Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, And for thy righteous word.
Jer 13:17
71%
17But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah's flock is taken captive.
Jer 2:13
71%
13For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jer 48:5
71%
5For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
Job 16:20
71%
20My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
Lam 1:2
71%
2She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; Among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.
2 Chr 29:9
71%
9For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Jer 44:6
71%
6Wherefore my wrath and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day.
Ps 119:82
71%
82Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me?
Mic 2:9
71%
9The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children ye take away my glory for ever.
Mic 1:9
70%
9For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Jer 4:31
70%
31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.
Amos 5:24
70%
24But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Job 17:7
70%
7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
Jer 48:32
70%
32With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah: thy branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage the destroyer is fallen.
Isa 3:8
70%
8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
Ps 38:10
70%
10My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Jer 6:7
70%
7As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
Isa 21:3
70%
3Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
Jer 48:3
70%
3The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!
Lam 2:2
70%
2The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: He hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He hath brought them down to the ground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.