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Lamentations 2:11

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Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

Mine eyes {H5869} do fail {H3615} with tears {H1832}, my bowels {H4578} are troubled {H2560}, my liver {H3516} is poured {H8210} upon the earth {H776}, for the destruction {H7667} of the daughter {H1323} of my people {H5971}; because the children {H5768} and the sucklings {H3243} swoon {H5848} in the streets {H7339} of the city {H7151}.

My eyes are worn out from weeping, everything in me is churning; I am empty of emotion because of the wounds to my people, because children and infants are fainting away in the streets of the city.

My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

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Cross-References

  • Lamentations 1:20 (6 votes)

    Behold, O LORD; for I [am] in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home [there is] as death.

  • Lamentations 1:16 (5 votes)

    For these [things] I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

  • Job 16:13 (5 votes)

    His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

  • Psalms 22:14 (4 votes)

    I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

  • Lamentations 3:48 (4 votes)

    Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Lamentations 3:51 (4 votes)

    Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

  • Jeremiah 4:19 (4 votes)

    ¶ My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.