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[a] Oh that my head were waters,[b]
    and my eyes a fountain of tears,
so that I might weep day and night,
    for the slain of the daughter of my people.
Oh that I had[c] in the desert a place of overnight lodging for travelers,
    that I may leave my people and go from them,
for all of them are adulterers,
    a band of traitors.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:1 Jeremiah 9:1–26 in the English Bible is 8:23–9:25 in the Hebrew Bible
  2. Jeremiah 9:1 Literally “Who he gives my head waters”
  3. Jeremiah 9:2 Literally “Who he gives me”