Jeremiah 9:1
English Standard Version
9 [a] (A)Oh that my head were waters,
and my eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night
for the slain of (B)the daughter of my people!
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:1 Ch 8:23 in Hebrew
Jeremiah 13:17
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17 But if you will not listen,
(A)my soul will weep in secret for your pride;
my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears,
because the Lord's flock has been taken captive.
Jeremiah 8:21-22
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21 For the wound of (A)the daughter of my people is my heart wounded;
(B)I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.
22 Is there no (C)balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has the health of the daughter of my people
not been restored?
Isaiah 22:4
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4 Therefore I said:
“Look away from me;
(A)let me weep bitter tears;
do not labor to comfort me
concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Jeremiah 6:26
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26 O daughter of my people, (A)put on sackcloth,
and (B)roll in ashes;
(C)make mourning as for an only son,
most bitter lamentation,
for suddenly the destroyer
will come upon us.
Ezekiel 21:6-7
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6 “As for you, son of man, (A)groan; with breaking heart and bitter grief, (B)groan before their eyes. 7 (C)And when they say to you, ‘Why do you groan?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the news (D)that it is coming. (E)Every heart will melt, and (F)all hands will be feeble; every spirit will faint, and (G)all knees will be weak as water. (H)Behold, it is (I)coming, and it will be fulfilled,’” declares the Lord God.
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Lamentations 3:48-49
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48 (A)my eyes flow with rivers of tears
because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 (B)“My eyes will flow without ceasing,
without respite,
Lamentations 2:18-19
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18 Their heart cried to the Lord.
O (A)wall of the daughter of Zion,
(B)let tears stream down like a torrent
(C)day and night!
(D)Give yourself no rest,
(E)your eyes no respite!
19 “Arise, (F)cry out in the night,
at the beginning of the night watches!
(G)Pour out your heart like water
before the presence of the Lord!
(H)Lift your hands to him
for the lives of your children,
(I)who faint for hunger
at the head of every street.”
Jeremiah 14:17
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17 “You shall say to them this word:
(A)‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
and let them not cease,
for the virgin (B)daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound,
(C)with a very grievous blow.
Isaiah 16:9
English Standard Version
9 Therefore (A)I weep with (B)the weeping of Jazer
for the vine of Sibmah;
I drench you with my tears,
O Heshbon and Elealeh;
for over (C)your summer fruit and your harvest
the shout has ceased.
Psalm 119:136
English Standard Version
Psalm 42:3
English Standard Version
3 (A)My tears have been my food
day and night,
(B)while they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”
Jeremiah 4:19
English Standard Version
Anguish over Judah's Desolation
19 (A)My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain!
Oh the walls of my heart!
My heart is beating wildly;
I cannot keep silent,
for I hear the sound of the trumpet,
the alarm of war.
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