If my head were a flowing spring,
my eyes a fountain of tears,
I would weep day and night(A)
over the slain of my dear[a] people.

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  1. 9:1 Lit slain among the daughter of my

18 Let them come quickly to raise a lament over us
so that our eyes may overflow with tears,
our eyelids be soaked with weeping.

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ע Ayin

16 I weep because of these things;
my eyes flow[a] with tears.(A)
For there is no one nearby to comfort me,(B)
no one to keep me alive.
My children are desolate
because the enemy has prevailed.

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  1. 1:16 Lit my eye, my eye flows

כ Kaph

11 My eyes are worn out from weeping;(A)
I am churning within.
My heart is poured out in grief[a](B)
because of the destruction of my dear people,(C)
because infants and nursing babies faint
in the streets of the city.(D)

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  1. 2:11 Lit My liver is poured out on the ground

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