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Jeremiah 9:1
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9 [a]1 Oh, that my head were a spring of water
    and my eyes a fountain of tears!(A)
I would weep(B) day and night
    for the slain of my people.(C)

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  1. Jeremiah 9:1 In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2-26 is numbered 9:1-25.
Listen to Jeremiah 9:1, Jeremiah 13:17, Jeremiah 8:21-22, Isaiah 22:4, Lamentations 2:11, Jeremiah 6:26, Ezekiel 21:6-7, Lamentations 3:48-49, Lamentations 2:18-19, Jeremiah 14:17, Isaiah 16:9, Psalm 119:136, Psalm 42:3
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Jeremiah 9:1
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9 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!

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Jeremiah 8
Jeremiah 10
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Jeremiah 13:17
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17 If you do not listen,(A)
    I will weep in secret
    because of your pride;
my eyes will weep bitterly,
    overflowing with tears,(B)
    because the Lord’s flock(C) will be taken captive.(D)

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Jeremiah 13:17
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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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Jeremiah 12
Jeremiah 14
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Jeremiah 8:21-22
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21 Since my people are crushed,(A) I am crushed;
    I mourn,(B) and horror grips me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead?(C)
    Is there no physician(D) there?
Why then is there no healing(E)
    for the wound of my people?

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Jeremiah 8:21-22
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21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

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Jeremiah 7
Jeremiah 9
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Isaiah 22:4
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4 Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
    let me weep(A) bitterly.
Do not try to console me
    over the destruction of my people.”(B)

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Isaiah 22:4
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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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Isaiah 21
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Lamentations 2:11
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11 My eyes fail from weeping,(A)
    I am in torment within(B);
my heart(C) is poured out(D) on the ground
    because my people are destroyed,(E)
because children and infants faint(F)
    in the streets of the city.

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Lamentations 2:11
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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 6:26
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26 Put on sackcloth,(A) my people,
    and roll in ashes;(B)
mourn with bitter wailing(C)
    as for an only son,(D)
for suddenly the destroyer(E)
    will come upon us.

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Jeremiah 6:26
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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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Jeremiah 5
Jeremiah 7
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Ezekiel 21:6-7
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6 “Therefore groan, son of man! Groan before them with broken heart and bitter grief.(A) 7 And when they ask you, ‘Why are you groaning?(B)’ you shall say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt with fear(C) and every hand go limp;(D) every spirit will become faint(E) and every leg will be wet with urine.’(F) It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

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Ezekiel 21:6-7
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6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.

7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord God.

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Ezekiel 20
Ezekiel 22
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Lamentations 3:48-49
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48 Streams of tears(A) flow from my eyes(B)
    because my people are destroyed.(C)

49 My eyes will flow unceasingly,
    without relief,(D)

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Lamentations 3:48-49
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48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission.

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Lamentations 2
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Lamentations 2:18-19
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18 The hearts of the people
    cry out to the Lord.(A)
You walls of Daughter Zion,(B)
    let your tears(C) flow like a river
    day and night;(D)
give yourself no relief,
    your eyes no rest.(E)

19 Arise, cry out in the night,
    as the watches of the night begin;
pour out your heart(F) like water
    in the presence of the Lord.(G)
Lift up your hands(H) to him
    for the lives of your children,
who faint(I) from hunger
    at every street corner.

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Lamentations 2:18-19
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18 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

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Jeremiah 14:17
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17 “Speak this word to them:

“‘Let my eyes overflow with tears(A)
    night and day without ceasing;
for the Virgin(B) Daughter, my people,
    has suffered a grievous wound,
    a crushing blow.(C)

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Jeremiah 14:17
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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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Jeremiah 13
Jeremiah 15
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Isaiah 16:9
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9 So I weep,(A) as Jazer weeps,
    for the vines of Sibmah.
Heshbon and Elealeh,(B)
    I drench you with tears!(C)
The shouts of joy(D) over your ripened fruit
    and over your harvests(E) have been stilled.

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Isaiah 16:9
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9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

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Isaiah 15
Isaiah 17
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Psalm 119:136
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136 Streams of tears(A) flow from my eyes,
    for your law is not obeyed.(B)

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Psalm 119:136
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136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

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Psalm 118
Psalm 120
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Psalm 42:3
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3 My tears(A) have been my food
    day and night,
while people say to me all day long,
    “Where is your God?”(B)

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Psalm 42:3
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3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

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Psalm 41
Psalm 43
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