In its streets they wear sackcloth;
on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails,
falling down and weeping.

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In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

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Listen! Their warriors cry loudly in the streets;
the messengers of peace weep bitterly.(A)

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Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

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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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Footnotes

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

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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Mourning for the Pierced One

10 “Then I will pour out a spirit[a](A) of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at[b] me whom they pierced. They will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for him as one weeps for a firstborn.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 12:10 Or out the Spirit
  2. 12:10 Or to

10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

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