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The Lord’s Sorrow for His People

[a]“Oh, that my head were a spring of water,[b]
and my eyes a fountain of tears,
for then I would cry day and night for those
    of my people[c] who have been killed.
Oh, that I had a lodging place for travelers in the desert,
    so that I could leave my people
        and go away from them.
For all of them are adulterers,
    a band of traitors.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:1 Because this verse is 8:23 in MT, there is a one verse discrepancy between MT and the ISV throughout this chapter.
  2. Jeremiah 9:1 Lit. were waters
  3. Jeremiah 9:1 Lit. for the daughter of my people