Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
New American Standard Bible
And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night
For the slain of the
King James Version
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!
Holman Bible
my eyes a fountain of tears,
I would weep day and night
over the slain of my dear
International Standard Version
"Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, for then I would cry day and night for those of my people who have been killed.
American Standard Version
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!
Amplified
And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night
For the slain of the daughter of my people!
Bible in Basic English
If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!
Darby Translation
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eye a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Julia Smith Translation
Who will give my head waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears? and I will weep day and night for the wounded of the daughter of my people.
King James 2000
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Lexham Expanded Bible
{Oh that my head were waters}, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night, [for] the slain of the daughter of my people.
Modern King James verseion
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O Who will give my head water enough, and a well of tears for mine eyes, that I may weep night and day for the slaughter of my people?
NET Bible
I wish that my head were a well full of water and my eyes were a fountain full of tears! If they were, I could cry day and night for those of my dear people who have been killed.
New Heart English Bible
Oh 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.
The Emphasized Bible
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!
Webster
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
World English Bible
Oh 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!
Youngs Literal Translation
Who doth make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people.
Themes
Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » The chastened
Jeremiah » The prophet » Lamentations of » Over jerusalem
Judgments » Saints » Sympathize with those under
Prophets » Felt deeply on account of the calamities which they predicted
Topics
Interlinear
Nathan
Mayim
`ayin
Bakah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 9:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lament Over Judah
1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Cross References
Jeremiah 13:17
But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride. And my eye shall weep greatly, and run down with tears, because LORD's flock is taken captive.
Isaiah 22:4
Therefore I said, Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes. Make thee mourning, as for an only son, a most bitter lamentation. For the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.
Jeremiah 8:21-22
For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold on me.
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young sons and the sucklings faint in the streets of the city.
Psalm 42:3
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is thy God?
Psalm 119:136
Streams of water run down my eyes, because they do not observe thy law.
Isaiah 16:9
Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh. for upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest the [battle] shout has fallen.
Jeremiah 14:17
And thou shall say this word to them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease. For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.
Lamentations 2:18-19
Their heart cried to LORD. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give thyself no respite. Let not the apple of thine eye cease.
Lamentations 3:48-49
My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Ezekiel 21:6-7
Sigh therefore, thou son of man. With the breaking of thy loins and with bitterness thou shall sigh before their eyes.