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.

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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.

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13 What can I say for you, (A)to what compare you,
    O daughter of Jerusalem?
(B)What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you,
    O virgin daughter of Zion?
(C)For your ruin is vast as the sea;
    who can heal you?

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15 “The Lord rejected
    all my mighty men in my midst;
he summoned an assembly against me
    to crush my young men;
(A)the Lord has trodden as in a winepress
    the virgin daughter of Judah.

16 “For these things (B)I weep;
    my eyes flow with tears;
for (C)a comforter is far from me,
    one to (D)revive my spirit;
my children are desolate,
    for the enemy has prevailed.”

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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.

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[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!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:1 Ch 8:23 in Hebrew

13 Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow,
    (A)making you desolate because of your sins.

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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!

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19 Woe is me because of my hurt!
    (A)My wound is grievous.
But I said, “Truly this is an affliction,
    and I must bear it.”

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22 this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:

“‘She despises you, she scorns you—
    (A)the virgin daughter of Zion;
she wags her head behind you—
    the daughter of Jerusalem.

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10 (A)Remove your stroke from me;
    I am spent by the hostility of your hand.

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“Fallen, no more to rise,
    is (A)the virgin Israel;
forsaken on her land,
    with none to raise her up.”

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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,

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