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[a] O that my head were a spring of water,
    and my eyes a fountain of tears,
so that I might weep day and night
    for the slain of my poor people!
[b] O that I had in the desert
    a traveller’s lodging-place,
that I might leave my people
    and go away from them!
For they are all adulterers,
    a band of traitors.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:1 Ch 8.23 in Heb
  2. Jeremiah 9:2 Ch 9.1 in Heb

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