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Jeremiah 14:17
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Jeremiah 14:17
17¶ Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
17¶ *Therefore thou shalt say this word vnto them, Let mine eies runne downe with teares night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grieuous blow.
- Lam. 1.16. and 2.18. chap. 13.17.
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DEFINED WORDS
Jeremiah 14:17
To speak, declare, tell, or express; also what is said.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A spoken or written expression; a saying, message, command, promise, account, or matter.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, judgment, or presence, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
To move swiftly on foot; to flow, spread, proceed, continue, or carry out a course.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Drops of fluid shed from the eyes in weeping, grief, pain, or strong feeling.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The period of light between morning and evening; a complete daily cycle; or a specified time, age, or season, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To stop moving, acting or speaking; to leave off; to give over; followed by from before a noun.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A person who has not had sexual relations; especially an unmarried maiden.
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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A break, rupture, opening, or act of breaking forth; also a violation.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Truly or in a high degree; as an adjective, true or real.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Burdensome, painful, severe.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
To strike, sound, breathe, or move with wind; also a stroke or gust.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study21For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
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Open the full verse study17But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock is carried away captive.
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Open the full verse study1OH that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
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Open the full verse study15The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
16For 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.
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Open the full verse study13What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
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Open the full verse study13Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
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Open the full verse study22This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
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Open the full verse study19¶ Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
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Open the full verse study18Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
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Open the full verse study136Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
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Open the full verse study10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
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Open the full verse study2The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
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Open the full verse study14All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
15Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.
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Open the full verse study48Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
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Open the full verse study18¶ When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
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Open the full verse study4O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
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