Jeremiah 9:1
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.
2 If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
3 “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- 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!
- WEB
- 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
- 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!
- DARBY
- 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!
- BLB
- 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!
- ÅB
- Gid mitt hode var vann, og mitt øye en tårekilde! Da ville jeg dag og natt gråte over de drepte blant mitt folk.
- OTB
- Å, om mitt hode var en kilde av vann og mine øyne en tårefontene, så jeg kunne gråte dag og natt for de drepte av min folks datter!
- B1930
- Gid mitt hode var vann, og mitt øie en tårekilde! Da vilde jeg dag og natt gråte over de drepte blandt mitt folk.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 13:17
But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
Read in contextIsaiah 22:4
Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Read in contextLamentations 2:11
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
Read in contextJeremiah 8:21–22
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
Read in contextJeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
Read in contextPsalms 42:3
My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Read in contextJeremiah 14:17
You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.
Read in contextLamentations 3:48–49
Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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