Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“For you would forget your trouble,
As waters that have passed by, you would remember it.

King James Version

Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

Holman Bible

For you will forget your suffering,
recalling it only as waters that have flowed by.

International Standard Version

You'll forget your suffering; you'll remember it like water that has evaporated.

A Conservative Version

For thou shall forget thy misery. Thou shall remember it as waters that are passed away.

American Standard Version

For thou shalt forget thy misery; Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away,

Amplified


“For you would forget your trouble;
You would remember it as waters that have passed by.

Bible in Basic English

For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:

Darby Translation

For thou shalt forget misery; as waters that are passed away shalt thou remember it;

Julia Smith Translation

For thou shalt forget toil, then shalt remember as waters they passed away.

King James 2000

Because you shall forget your misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

Lexham Expanded Bible

For you yourself will forget your misery; you will remember [it] as water [that] has flowed past.

Modern King James verseion

for you shall forget your misery, and you shall remember it as waters that pass away.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Then shouldest thou forget thy misery, and think no more upon it, than upon the waters that run by.

NET Bible

For you will forget your trouble; you will remember it like water that has flowed away.

New Heart English Bible

for you shall forget your misery. You shall remember it as waters that are passed away.

The Emphasized Bible

For, now, shalt thou forget, sorrow, Like waters passed away, shalt thou remember it.

Webster

Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

World English Bible

for you shall forget your misery. You shall remember it as waters that are passed away.

Youngs Literal Translation

For thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou rememberest.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁכח שׁכח 
Shakach 
Usage: 102

and remember
זכר 
Zakar 
Usage: 231

it as waters
מים 
Mayim 
Usage: 581

Context Readings

Confess Your Sin And Be Forgiven

15 “Then, indeed, you could lift up your face without moral defect,
And you would be steadfast and not fear.
16 “For you would forget your trouble,
As waters that have passed by, you would remember it.
17 “Your life would be brighter than noonday;
Darkness would be like the morning.



Cross References

Isaiah 65:16

“Because he who is blessed in the earth
Will be blessed by the God of truth;
And he who swears in the earth
Will swear by the God of truth;
Because the former troubles are forgotten,
And because they are hidden from My sight!

Genesis 9:11

I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

Genesis 41:51

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.”

Job 6:15

“My brothers have acted deceitfully like a wadi,
Like the torrents of wadis which vanish,

Job 22:11

Or darkness, so that you cannot see,
And an abundance of water covers you.

Proverbs 31:7

Let him drink and forget his poverty
And remember his trouble no more.

Ecclesiastes 5:20

For he will not often consider the years of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the gladness of his heart.

Isaiah 12:1-2

Then you will say on that day,
I will give thanks to You, O Lord;
For although You were angry with me,
Your anger is turned away,
And You comfort me.

Isaiah 54:4

“Fear not, for you will not be put to shame;
And do not feel humiliated, for you will not be disgraced;
But you will forget the shame of your youth,
And the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

Isaiah 54:9

“For this is like the days of Noah to Me,
When I swore that the waters of Noah
Would not flood the earth again;
So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you
Nor will I rebuke you.

John 16:21

Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a child has been born into the world.

Revelation 7:14-17

I said to him, “My lord, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

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