Jeremiah 9:1

Grief Suffering

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.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

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 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.
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Isaiah 22:4
Therefore 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.
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Lamentations 2:11
Mine 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.
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Jeremiah 8:21–22
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
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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, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
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Psalms 42:3
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
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Jeremiah 14:17
Therefore 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.
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Lamentations 3:48–49
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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