Jeremiah 14:17
Therefore, you shall speak this word to them: 'Let my eyes flow 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 blow.'
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Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts
You are to speak this word to them: 'Let my eyes flow with tears night and day without ceasing, for the virgin daughter of my people has suffered a great shattering—a crushing blow, a grievous wound.'
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
Therefore 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 blow.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
This shalt thou saye also vnto them: Myne eyes shal wepe without ceassinge daye & night. For my people shalbe dtstroyed with greate harme, and shall perish with a greate plage.
Geneva Bible (1560)
Therefore thou shalt say this worde vnto them, Let mine eyes drop downe teares night & day without ceasing: for the virgine daughter of my people is destroyed with a great destruction, and with a sore grieuous plague.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
This shalt thou say also vnto them, Mine eyes shall weepe without ceassyng day and nyght: for my people shalbe destroyed with great harme, and shall perishe with a great plague.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
¶ Therefore 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 blow.
Webster's Bible (1833)
You shall say this word to them, Let my 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.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
And thou hast said unto them this word: Tears come down mine eyes night and day, And they do not cease, For, `with' a great breach, Broken hath been the virgin daughter of my people, A very grievous stroke.
American Standard Version (1901)
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.
American Standard Version (1901)
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.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
And you are to say this word to them, Let my eyes be streaming with water night and day, and let it not be stopped; for the virgin daughter of my people is wounded with a great wound, with a very bitter blow.
World English Bible (2000)
You shall say this word to them, Let my 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.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
Lament over Present Destruction and Threat of More to Come“Tell these people this, Jeremiah:‘My eyes overflow with tears day and night without ceasing. For my people, my dear children, have suffered a crushing blow. They have suffered a serious wound.
Referenced Verses
- Jer 8:21 : 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt; I am in mourning; astonishment has taken hold of me.
- Jer 9:1 : 1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
- Jer 13:17 : 17 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is taken captive.
- Lam 1:15-16 : 15 The Lord has trodden underfoot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he has called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord has trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress. 16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
- Lam 2:13 : 13 What can I witness for you? what can I liken to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what can I compare to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your ruin is vast like the sea: who can heal you?
- Lam 2:18 : 18 Their heart cried to the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give yourself no rest; let not the apple of your eye cease.
- Mic 6:13 : 13 Therefore I will make you sick by striking you, making you desolate because of your sins.
- Jer 10:19 : 19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
- Ps 119:136 : 136 Rivers of water run down from my eyes, because men do not keep Your law.
- Isa 37:22 : 22 This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
- Jer 8:18 : 18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.
- Ps 39:10 : 10 Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.
- Ps 80:4-5 : 4 O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people? 5 You feed them with the bread of tears and give them tears to drink in great measure.
- Jer 30:14-15 : 14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they do not seek you; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of your iniquity; because your sins have increased. 15 Why do you cry over your affliction? Your sorrow is incurable because of the multitude of your iniquity: because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.
- Lam 3:48-49 : 48 My eye pours out rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 My eye flows ceaselessly, without intermission,
- Amos 5:2 : 2 The virgin of Israel has fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Lam 2:10-134 verses83%
10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, and keep silence: they have thrown dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
11My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
12They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out in their mothers' bosom.
13What can I witness for you? what can I liken to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what can I compare to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your ruin is vast like the sea: who can heal you?
- Lam 3:48-492 verses82%
48My eye pours out rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49My eye flows ceaselessly, without intermission,
- Isa 22:4-52 verses82%
4Therefore I said, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, do not labor to comfort me, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
5For it is a day of trouble and of trampling down and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains.
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1Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
- Jer 14:18-192 verses80%
18If I go out to the field, then behold, those slain with the sword; and if I enter the city, then behold, those sick from famine! Yes, both prophet and priest roam about in a land they do not know.
19Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us down, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, but behold, trouble!
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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.
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16And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; they will have no one to bury them—neither them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters—for I will pour their wickedness upon them.
- Lam 1:15-184 verses80%
15The Lord has trodden underfoot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he has called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord has trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
16For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
17Zion spreads forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD has commanded concerning Jacob that his adversaries should be all around him: Jerusalem is like a menstruous woman among them.
18The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.
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18Their heart cried to the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give yourself no rest; let not the apple of your eye cease.
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26O daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make lamentation, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.
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17But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is taken captive.
- Mic 1:8-92 verses76%
8Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning as the ostriches.
9For her wound is incurable; for it has come to Judah; it has reached the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
- Lam 2:20-212 verses76%
20Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom You have done this. Shall the women eat their offspring, the children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have killed, and not pitied.
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12Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is done to me, with which the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
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2Judah mourns, and its gates languish; they are in mourning on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
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8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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20Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
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2She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies.
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21For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt; I am in mourning; astonishment has taken hold of me.
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19Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
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16Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, says thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skilled in lamentation to wailing.
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11For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
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31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, and the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
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17Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?
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19Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of those who dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images and strange idols?
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19These two things have come upon you; who shall feel sorry for you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort you?
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14They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
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16Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, nor shall your tears run down.
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4The ways of Zion mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
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6For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
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22Yet, behold, in it shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come to you, and you shall see their way and their deeds: and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.
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12For thus says the LORD, Your bruise is incurable, and your wound is severe.
- Jer 31:15-162 verses73%
15Thus says the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.
16Thus says the LORD; Restrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears: for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
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14Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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9The women of my people you have cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children you have taken away my glory forever.
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10For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; they are gone.
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11They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourns to Me; the whole land is made desolate, because no one lays it to heart.
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9My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.