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Jeremiah 9:1

WEB

1Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

KJV

1Oh 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!

BSB

1Oh, 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.

FBV

1How I wish my head was a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! Then I would weep day and night over all my people who have been killed.

Extra References

Isaiah 22:4

4Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 13:17

17But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

Jeremiah 8:21-22

21For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me. 22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Lamentations 2:11

11My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My bile is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.

Jeremiah 6:26

26Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.

Lamentations 3:48-49

48My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,

Isaiah 16:9

9Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.

Lamentations 2:18-19

18Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let your eyes rest. 19Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Psalms 42:3

3My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

Ezekiel 21:6-7

6“Therefore sigh, you son of man. You shall sigh before their eyes with a broken heart[+] and with bitterness. 7It shall be, when they ask you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ that you shall say, ‘Because of the news, for it comes! Every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord GOD.’”