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Amplified


“Let them hurry and take up a wailing for us,
That our eyes may shed tears
And our eyelids flow with water.

New American Standard Bible

“Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us,
That our eyes may shed tears
And our eyelids flow with water.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

Let them come quickly to raise a lament over us
so that our eyes may overflow with tears,
our eyelids soaked with weeping.

International Standard Version

Let them hurry and lament for us. Let tears run down from our eyes, and let our eyelids flow with water.

A Conservative Version

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.

American Standard Version

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.

Bible in Basic English

Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.

Darby Translation

and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids pour forth waters.

Julia Smith Translation

And they shall hasten and lift up a lamentation for us, and our eyes shall go down with tears, and our eyelashes shall shake out waters.

King James 2000

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 water.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And let them hasten, and let them lift up wailing over us, so that our eyes may melt [with] tears, and our eyelids may flow [with] water.

Modern King James verseion

and let them make haste and take up a weeping for us, so that our eyes may run down with tears, and waters flow from our eyelids.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

and sing a mourning song of you: that the tears may fall out of our eyes, and that our eyelids may gush out of water.

NET Bible

I said, "Indeed, let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us. Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes and our eyelids overflow with water.

New Heart English Bible

"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.

The Emphasized Bible

Yea let them make haste, and lift up over us a wailing, - That our eyes, may run down, with tears, And, our eyelashes, stream down with water; -

Webster

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.

World English Bible

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow.

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
and take up
נסה נשׂא 
Nasa' 
Usage: 653

נהי 
N@hiy 
Usage: 7

ירד 
Yarad 
Usage: 378

with tears
דּמעה 
Dim`ah 
Usage: 23

and our eyelids
עפעף 
`aph`aph 
Usage: 10

References

American

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Context Readings

Judah's Failures

17 Thus says the Lord of hosts,

“Consider and call for the mourning women to come;
Send for the wailing women to come.
18 
“Let them hurry and take up a wailing for us,
That our eyes may shed tears
And our eyelids flow with water.
19
“For a sound of wailing is heard [coming] from Zion:
‘How we are ruined!
We are greatly perplexed and utterly shamed,
Because we have left the land,
Because they have torn down our dwellings.’”



Cross References

Jeremiah 14:17


“Therefore [Jeremiah] you will say this word to them,
‘Let my eyes flow with tears night and day,
And let them never cease;
For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a great blow,
With a very serious and severely infected wound.

Jeremiah 9:1

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!

Isaiah 22:4


Therefore I say, “Look away from me;
Let me weep bitterly.
Do not try to comfort me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Jeremiah 6:26


O daughter of my people [says Jeremiah],
Clothe yourself in sackcloth and wallow in ashes;
Mourn [aloud] as for an only son,
A most bitter cry [of sorrow and regret],
For suddenly the destroyer will come upon us [on both prophet and people].

Jeremiah 9:10


“I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains,
And a [funeral] dirge for the pastures of the wilderness,
Because they are burned up and desolated so that no one passes through [them];
Nor can anyone hear the lowing of cattle.
Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

Jeremiah 9:20


Now hear the word of the Lord, O you women,
And let your ear hear the word of His mouth;
Teach your daughters a song of mourning,
And each one [teach] her neighbor a dirge.

Jeremiah 13:17


But if you will not listen and obey,
My soul will weep in secret for your pride;
My eyes will weep bitterly
And flow with tears,
Because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.

Lamentations 1:2


She weeps bitterly in the night
And her tears are [constantly] on her cheeks;
Among all her lovers (political allies)
She has no one to comfort her.
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
They have become her enemies.

Lamentations 2:11


My eyes fail because of tears [mourns Jeremiah],
My spirit is deeply disturbed;
My heart is poured out on the earth [in grief]
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Jerusalem],
When little ones and infants faint
In the streets of the city.

Lamentations 2:18


Their hearts cried out to the Lord.
“O wall of the Daughter of Zion,
Let your tears run down like a river day and night;
Give yourself no relief,
Let your eyes have no rest.

Luke 19:41

As He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it [and the spiritual ignorance of its people],

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