Parallel Verses
Amplified
My eyes [see things that] bring pain to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.
New American Standard Bible
Because of all the daughters of my city.
King James Version
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
Holman Bible
because of the fate of all the women in my city.
International Standard Version
What I see grieves my soul because of all the young women of my city.
A Conservative Version
My eye stirs my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
American Standard Version
Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Bible in Basic English
The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.
Darby Translation
Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Julia Smith Translation
Mine eye will glean for my soul for all the daughters of my city.
King James 2000
My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My eyes inflict my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
Modern King James verseion
My eye pains my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Mine eye breaketh my heart, because of all the daughters of my city.
NET Bible
What my eyes see grieves me -- all the suffering of the daughters in my city.
New Heart English Bible
My eyes bring my soul grief, because of all the daughters of my city.
The Emphasized Bible
Mine eye dealeth severely with my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Webster
My eye affecteth my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
World English Bible
My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Youngs Literal Translation
My eye affecteth my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:51
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
50
Until the Lord looks down
And sees from heaven.
My eyes [see things that] bring pain to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.
Without cause my enemies
Hunted me down like a bird;
Cross References
Genesis 44:34
How can I go up to my father if the young man is not with me—for fear that I would see the tragedy that would overtake my [elderly] father [if Benjamin does not return]?”
1 Samuel 30:3-4
When David and his men came to the town, it was burned, and their wives and their sons and their daughters had been taken captive.
Jeremiah 4:19-21
My soul, my soul! I writhe in anguish and pain! Oh, the walls of my heart!
My heart is pounding and throbbing within me;
I cannot be silent,
For you have heard, O my soul,
The sound of the trumpet,
The alarm of war.
Jeremiah 11:22
Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, “Behold, I am about to punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and their daughters will die by famine;
Jeremiah 14:16
And the people to whom they are prophesying will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword; and they will have no one to bury them—neither them, nor their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters. For I will pour out their [own] wickedness on them [and not only on the imposters posing as prophets, for the people could not have been deceived without their own consent].
Jeremiah 14:18
‘If I go out into the field,
Then I gaze on those slaughtered with the sword!
And if I enter the city,
Then I gaze on [those tormented with] the diseases of famine!
For both prophet and priest [who should have guided the people]
Go about [bewildered and exiled] in a land (Babylon) that they do not know or understand.’”
Jeremiah 19:9
And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and each one will eat one another’s flesh during the siege and distress brought by their enemies and those who seek their lives.”’
Lamentations 1:18
“The Lord is righteous and just;
For I have rebelled against His commandment (His word).
Hear now, all you peoples,
And look at my pain;
My virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.
Lamentations 2:21
The young and the old
Lie on the ground in the streets;
My virgins and my young men
Have fallen by the sword.
You have killed them in the day of Your anger,
You have slaughtered, not sparing.
Lamentations 5:11
They ravished the women in Zion,
The virgins in the cities of Judah.
Luke 19:41-44
As He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it [and the spiritual ignorance of its people],