Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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
General references
Bible References
Oh that
Jeremiah 4:19
My bowels, my bowels! I writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart is restless within me, I cannot keep silent, for I hear [in] my inner self the sound of a horn, [the] alarm of war.
Jeremiah 13:17
But if you will not listen to it, my inner self will weep in secret places, because of {the presence of} [your] pride. And my eyes will weep bitterly, and they will melt [in] tears, because the flock of Yahweh has been taken captive.
Jeremiah 14:17
"And you shall say to them this word, 'Let my eyes melt [with] tears night and day, and let them not cease, for [with] a great wound the virgin daughter of my people is broken, [with] a very incurable wound.
Psalm 119:136
Streams of water flow down [from] my eyes, because [people] do not heed your law.
Isaiah 16:9
Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer [for] the vine of Sibmah. I drench you [with] my tears, Heshbon and Elealeh, for a jubilant shout has fallen over your summer fruit and harvest.
Isaiah 22:4
Therefore I said, "Look away from me, let me {weep bitterly}; you must not insist on comforting me for the destruction of the daughter of my people."
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes have {spent all their tears}; {my stomach} is in torment, {my heart} is poured out on the earth because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because child and babe faint in [the] public squares of a city.
Lamentations 3:48
Channels of water run down my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Ezekiel 21:6
And you, son of man, groan {with shaking hips}, and you must groan with bitterness before their eyes.
The daughter
Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, gird yourself [with] sackcloth, and roll about in the ashes in mourning, a mourning ceremony [as for] an only child. Make for yourself wailing of bitterness, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
Jeremiah 8:21
"Because of the wound of the daughter of my people I am broken down, I mourn, horror has seized me.
General references
2 Samuel 1:12
Then they mourned and wept and fasted over Saul and Jonathan his son until the evening, [as well] as over the people of Yahweh and over the house of Israel because they had fallen by the sword.
Psalm 119:136
Streams of water flow down [from] my eyes, because [people] do not heed your law.
Lamentations 3:48
Channels of water run down my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
John 11:35
Jesus wept.
Romans 9:2
that my grief is great and [there is] constant distress in my heart.