KJV 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!
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Jeremiah 9:1
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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB 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!
ASV 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!
YLT Young’s 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.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 9
1 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!
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 [be] all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3 And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
מִֽי־H4310 · miwho?יִתֵּ֤ןH5414 · na.tanto give: giveרֹאשִׁי֙H7218 · roshheadמַ֔יִםH4325 · ma.yimwaterוְעֵינִ֖יH5869 · a.yineyeמְק֣וֹרH4726 · ma.qorfountainדִּמְעָ֑הH1832 · dim.ahtearsוְאֶבְכֶּה֙H1058 · ba.khahto weepיוֹמָ֣םH3119 · yo.mamby dayוָלַ֔יְלָהH3915 · lay.lahnightאֵ֖תH853 · et[Obj.]חַֽלְלֵ֥יH2491 · cha.lalslain: killedבַת־H1323 · batdaughterעַמִּֽי׃H5971 · ampeople
Cross-references
Isaiah 22:4Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.Jeremiah 13:17But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD’S flock is carried away captive.Lamentations 2:11Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.Jeremiah 8:21-22For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.Jeremiah 6:26O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, [as for] an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.Jeremiah 14:17Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine 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 blow.Psalm 42:3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where [is] thy God?Lamentations 3:48-49Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.Psalm 119:136Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.Lamentations 2:18-19Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.Ezekiel 21:6-7Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of [thy] loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.Isaiah 16:9Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.Jeremiah 4:19My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
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