Jeremiah 9:1

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Summary

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!

Oh that

The daughter

Jeremiah 6:26

Jeremiah 8:21

General references

Romans 9:2

Bible References

Oh that

My bowels, my bowels! I shall afflict the walls of my heart; my heart made commotion to me; I shall not be silent, for the voice of the trumpet thou didst hear, O my soul, the tumult of war.

And if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in hiding places from the face of pride, and mine eye weeping shall weep and bring down tears, because the flock of Jehovah was taken captive.

And say to them this word: Mine eyes shall bring down tears night and day, and they shall not rest: for the virgin daughter of my people was broken with a great breaking, a very sickly wound.

Mine eyes will bring down streams of waters because they will not watch thy laws.

For this I will weep with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealah: for upon thy fruit harvest and upon thy harvest the vintage shout fell.

For this I said, Look ye away from me; I will be bitter in my weeping, ye shall not hasten to comfort me upon the desolation of the daughter of my people.

Mine eyes failed with tears, my bowels were in a ferment, my liver was poured out to the earth, upon the breaking of the daughter of my people; in the fainting of the child and suckling in the wide places of the city.

Mine eye will bring down streams of water for the breaking of the daughter of my people.

And thou son of man, sigh with the breaking of the loins; and with bitterness thou shalt sigh before their eyes.

The daughter

O daughter of my people, gird on sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes: make to thee the mourning of an only begotten, a wailing of bitterness; for he laying waste shall suddenly come upon us.

For the breaking of the daughter of my people was I broken; I was darkened; astonishment took hold of me.

General references

And they will mourn and weep, and fast, even till the evening, for Saul and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Jehovah and for the house of Israel, because they fell by the sword.

Mine eyes will bring down streams of waters because they will not watch thy laws.

Mine eye will bring down streams of water for the breaking of the daughter of my people.

Jesus wept.

That there is great grief to me and continued pain in my heart.