Lamentations 3:48
Good News Translation
My eyes flow with rivers of tears at the destruction of my people.

New Revised Standard Version
My eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of my people.

Contemporary English Version
My people are destroyed! Tears flood my eyes,

New American Bible
My eyes stream with tears over the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 2:11,18 Caph. My eyes have failed with weeping, my bowels are troubled: my liver is poured out upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, when the children, and the sucklings, fainted away in the streets of the city. . . .

Psalm 119:136 My eyes have sent forth springs of water: because they have not kept thy law.

Jeremiah 4:19 My bowels, my bowels are in part, the senses of my heart are troubled within me, I will not hold my peace, for my soul hath heard the sound of the trumpet, the cry of battle.

Jeremiah 9:1,18 Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? and I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people. . . .

Jeremiah 13:17 But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down with tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive.

Romans 9:1-3 I speak the truth in Christ: I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost: . . .

Context
God's Justice
47Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction. 48Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.49Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest:…
Cross References
Psalm 119:136
My eyes have sent forth springs of water: because they have not kept thy law.

Jeremiah 9:1
Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? and I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 9:18
Let them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters.

Lamentations 1:16
Ain. Therefore do I weep, and my eyes run down with water: because the comforter, the relief of my soul, is far from me: my children are desolate because the enemy hath prevailed.

Lamentations 2:11
Caph. My eyes have failed with weeping, my bowels are troubled: my liver is poured out upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, when the children, and the sucklings, fainted away in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 2:18
Sade. Their heart cried to the Lord upon the walls of the daughter of Sion: Let tears run down like a torrent day and night: give thyself no rest, and let not the apple of thy eye cease.

Lamentations 3:47
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