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Lamentations 3:48-50
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

48 [a]My eyes stream with tears over the destruction
    of the daughter of my people.(A)

49 My eyes will flow without ceasing,
    without rest,
50 Until the Lord from heaven
    looks down and sees.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:48–51 These verses are more appropriate on the lips of the poet, who speaks of “my city” (v. 51). Daughters of my city: here as elsewhere “daughter” may refer to villages dependent on a larger city.
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