Lamentations 3:51
Good News Translation
My heart is grieved when I see what has happened to the women of the city.

New Revised Standard Version
My eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the young women in my city.

Contemporary English Version
I am horrified when I see what enemies have done to the young women of our city.

New American Bible
I am tormented by the sight of all the daughters of my city.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

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Genesis 44:34 For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father.

1 Samuel 30:3,4 So when David and his men came to the city, and found it burnt with fire, and that their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives, . . .

Jeremiah 4:19-21 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 14:18 If I go forth into the fields, behold the slain with the sword: and if I enter into the city, behold them that are consumed with famine. The prophet also and the priest are gone into a land which they knew not.

Luke 19:41-44 And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying: . . .

mine heart.

Lamentations 1:18 Sade. The Lord is just, for I have provoked his mouth to wrath: hear, I pray you, all ye people, and see my sorrow: my virgins, and my young men are gone into captivity.

Lamentations 2:21 Sin. The child and the old man lie without on the ground: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain them in the day of thy wrath: thou hast killed, and shewn them no pity.

Lamentations 5:11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.

Jeremiah 11:22 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will visit upon them: their young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine.

Jeremiah 14:16 And the people to whom they prophesy, shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword, and there shall be none to bury them: they and their wives, their sons and their daughters, and I will pour out their own wickedness upon them.

Jeremiah 19:9 And I will feed them with the flesh of their sons, and with the flesh of their daughters: and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege, and in the distress wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

Context
God's Justice
50Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens. 51Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.52Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.…
Cross References
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 3:50
Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.

Lamentations 3:52
Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.

Lamentations 3:50
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