Lamentations 1:16
“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”This verse in the real world
In what words
- רָחַקrâchaqto widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (litera
- שָׁמֵםshâmêmto stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usu
- נָחַםnâchamproperly, to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e. (in a favorabl
- בָּכָהbâkâhto weep; generally to bemoan
- אֹיֵבʼôyêbhating; an adversary
- יָרַדyâradto descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore,
- מַיִםmayimwater; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
- נֶפֶשׁnepheshproperly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in
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The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
Cross-references
Psa 119:136, Lam 1:2, Jer 13:17, Lam 2:18, Jer 14:17, Lam 2:11, Lam 3:48–49, Lam 4:2–10