Lamentations 3:49

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

🎯 Translation Approach

A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Readability

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💎 Distinctive Features

Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

✅ Strengths

High fidelity to original languages
Includes Strong's numbers for precise word study
Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

⚠️ Considerations

Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Jer 14:17 : 17 And 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.
Ps 77:2 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted.
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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

Lam 3:48
88%
48Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lam 3:50-51
2 verses
80%
50Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven.
51Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Lam 2:18
78%
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.
Jer 9:1
78%
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!
Ps 119:136
77%
136Streams of water run down mine eyes, Because they observe not thy law.
Lam 1:16
77%
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.
Lam 2:11
77%
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.
Ps 6:6-7
2 verses
77%
6I am weary with my groaning; Every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
7Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.
Jer 14:17
76%
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.
Ps 119:82
74%
82Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me?
Ps 119:123
73%
123Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, And for thy righteous word.
Ps 31:9-10
2 verses
73%
9Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.
10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.
Jer 9:18
73%
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.
Job 16:20
73%
20My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
Job 16:16
73%
16My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Ps 69:3
73%
3I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Isa 22:4
73%
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.
Job 17:7
72%
7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
Job 3:24
72%
24For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.
Ps 77:4
72%
4Thou holdest mine eyes watching: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Ps 42:3
72%
3My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Lam 1:12-13
2 verses
71%
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.
13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
Ps 38:9-10
2 verses
71%
9Lord, all my desire is before thee; And my groaning is not hid from thee.
10My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Ps 39:12
71%
12Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Ps 88:9
71%
9Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee.
Jer 13:17
70%
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.
Ps 132:4
69%
4I will not give sleep to mine eyes, Or slumber to mine eyelids;
Ps 38:17
69%
17For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
Ps 141:8
69%
8For mine eyes are unto thee, O Jehovah the Lord: In thee do I take refuge; leave not my soul destitute.
Lam 5:17
69%
17For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
Ps 25:15
69%
15Mine eyes are ever toward Jehovah; For he will pluck my feet out of the net.
Ps 119:148
69%
148Mine eyes anticipated the night-watches, That I might meditate on thy word.
Job 17:2
69%
2Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.
Job 7:7-8
2 verses
68%
7Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.
8The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
Ezek 24:16
68%
16Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet thou shalt neither mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
Isa 38:14
68%
14Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
Jer 16:17
68%
17For mine eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from mine eyes.
Jer 15:18
68%
18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?
Job 7:19
68%
19How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Job 3:10
68%
10Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
Ps 143:4
67%
4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.
Ezek 9:10
67%
10And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way upon their head.