Jeremiah’s Request

17 You are to speak this word to them:
Let my eyes overflow with tears;
day and night may they not stop,(A)
for my dearest people[a]
have been destroyed by a crushing blow,(B)
an extremely severe wound.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 14:17 Lit for the virgin daughter of my people

17 “You will say this word to them,
(A)Let my eyes flow down with tears night and day,
And let them not cease;
For the virgin (B)daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow,
With a sorely (C)infected wound.

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