Psalm 119:136
New International Version
Streams of tears flow from my eyes, for your law is not obeyed.

New Living Translation
Rivers of tears gush from my eyes because people disobey your instructions. Tsadhe

English Standard Version
My eyes shed streams of tears, because people do not keep your law.

Berean Standard Bible
My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.

King James Bible
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

New King James Version
Rivers of water run down from my eyes, Because men do not keep Your law.

New American Standard Bible
My eyes shed streams of water, Because they do not keep Your Law.

NASB 1995
My eyes shed streams of water, Because they do not keep Your law. Tsadhe.

NASB 1977
My eyes shed streams of water, Because they do not keep Thy law.

Legacy Standard Bible
My eyes shed streams of water, Because they do not keep Your law.

Amplified Bible
My eyes weep streams of water Because people do not keep Your law.

Christian Standard Bible
My eyes pour out streams of tears because people do not follow your instruction.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My eyes pour out streams of tears because people do not follow Your instruction.

American Standard Version
Streams of water run down mine eyes, Because they observe not thy law.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Streams of water ran from my eyes because they do not keep your Law.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Mine eyes have been bathed in streams of water, because I kept not thy law.

Contemporary English Version
When anyone disobeys you, my eyes overflow with tears.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My eyes have sent forth springs of water: because they have not kept thy law.

English Revised Version
Mine eyes run down with rivers of water, because they observe not thy law.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Streams of tears flow from my eyes because others do not follow your teachings.

Good News Translation
My tears pour down like a river, because people do not obey your law.

International Standard Version
My eyes shed rivers of tears, when others do not obey your instruction.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Mine eyes run down with rivers of water, Because they observe not Thy law.

Literal Standard Version
Streams of waters have come down my eyes, | Because they have not kept Your law!

Majority Standard Bible
My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.

New American Bible
My eyes shed streams of tears because your law is not observed.

NET Bible
Tears stream down from my eyes, because people do not keep your law.

New Revised Standard Version
My eyes shed streams of tears because your law is not kept.

New Heart English Bible
Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they do not observe your Law.

Webster's Bible Translation
Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not thy law.

World English Bible
Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don’t observe your law.

Young's Literal Translation
Rivulets of waters have come down mine eyes, Because they have not kept Thy law!

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
135Make Your face shine upon Your servant, and teach me Your statutes. 136My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed. 137Righteous are You, O LORD, and upright are Your judgments.…

Cross References
Psalm 119:158
I look on the faithless with loathing because they do not keep Your word.

Jeremiah 9:1
Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 9:18
Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.

Jeremiah 13:17
But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD's flock has been taken captive.

Jeremiah 14:17
You are to speak this word to them: 'My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.

Jeremiah 44:23
Because you burned incense and sinned against the LORD, and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in His instruction, His statutes, and His testimonies, this disaster has befallen you, as you see today."

Lamentations 2:18
The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.


Treasury of Scripture

Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not your law.

Psalm 119:53,158
Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law…

1 Samuel 15:11
It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.

Jeremiah 9:1,18
Oh 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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Psalm 119
1. This psalm contains various prayers, praises, and professions of obedience.
2. Aleph.
9. Beth
17. Gimel
25. Daleth
33. He
41. Waw
49. Zayin
57. Heth
65. Teth
73. Yodh
81. Kaph
89. Lamedh
97. Mem
105. Nun
113. Samekh
121. Ayin
129. Pe
137. Tsadhe
145. Qoph
153. Resh
161. Sin and Shin
169. Taw














Verse 136. - Rivers of water s run down mine eyes; literally, mine eyes run down [with] rivers of water (comp. Lamentations 3:48; and see also Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 14:17). Because they keep not thy Law (comp. ver. 53).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
My eyes
עֵינָ֑י (‘ê·nāy)
Noun - cdc | first person common singular
Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain

shed
יָרְד֣וּ (yā·rə·ḏū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 3381: To come or go down, descend

streams
פַּלְגֵי־ (pal·ḡê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 6388: A channel, canal

of tears
מַ֭יִם (ma·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

because
עַ֝֗ל (‘al)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

Your law
תוֹרָתֶֽךָ׃ (ṯō·w·rā·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 8451: Direction, instruction, law

is not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

obeyed.
שָׁמְר֥וּ (šā·mə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to


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