Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
so that our eyes may overflow with tears,
our eyelids soaked with weeping.
New American Standard Bible
That our
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.
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.
Amplified
“Let them hurry and take up a wailing for us,
That our eyes may shed tears
And our eyelids flow with water.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 9:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Judah's Failures
17
This is what the Lord of Hosts says:
send for the skillful women.
so that our eyes may overflow with tears,
our eyelids soaked with weeping.
How devastated we are.
We are greatly ashamed,
for we have abandoned the land;
our dwellings have been torn down.
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 14:17
Let my eyes overflow with tears;
day and night may they not stop,
for the virgin daughter of my people
has been destroyed by a great disaster,
an extremely severe wound.
Jeremiah 9:1
my eyes a fountain of tears,
I would weep day and night
over the slain of my dear
Isaiah 22:4
“Look away from me! Let me weep bitterly!
Do not try to comfort me
about the destruction of my dear
Jeremiah 6:26
and roll in the dust.
Mourn as you would for an only son,
a bitter lament,
for suddenly the destroyer
Jeremiah 9:10
over the mountains,
a dirge over the wilderness grazing land,
for they have been so scorched
that no one passes through.
The sound of cattle is no longer heard.
From the birds of the sky to the animals,
everything has fled—they have gone away.
Jeremiah 9:20
Pay attention to
Teach your daughters a lament
and one another a dirge,
Jeremiah 13:17
my innermost being will weep in secret
because of your pride.
My eyes will overflow with tears,
for the Lord’s flock
Lamentations 1:2
ב Bet
with tears on her cheeks.
There is no one to offer her comfort,
not one from all her lovers.
All her friends have betrayed her;
they have become her enemies.
Lamentations 2:11
כ Kaf
I am churning within.
My heart is poured out in grief
because of the destruction of my dear people,
because children and infants faint
in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 2:18
צ Tsade
Wall of Daughter Zion,
let your tears run down like a river
day and night.
Give yourself no relief
and your
Luke 19:41
As He approached and saw the city, He wept