[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

[a]Oh, that my head were a spring of water
    and my eyes a fountain of tears!(A)
I would weep(B) day and night
    for the slain of my people.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:1 In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2-26 is numbered 9:1-25.

18 let them make haste (A)and raise a wailing over us,
    (B)that our eyes may run down with tears
    and our eyelids flow with water.

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18 Let them come quickly
    and wail over us
till our eyes overflow with tears
    and water streams from our eyelids.(A)

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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.

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17 “Speak this word to them:

“‘Let my eyes overflow with tears(A)
    night and day without ceasing;
for the Virgin(B) Daughter, my people,
    has suffered a grievous wound,
    a crushing blow.(C)

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48 (A)my eyes flow with rivers of tears
    because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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48 Streams of tears(A) flow from my eyes(B)
    because my people are destroyed.(C)

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And the Lord said to him, “Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and (A)put a mark on the foreheads of the men who (B)sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”

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and said to him, “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem(A) and put a mark(B) on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament(C) over all the detestable things that are done in it.(D)

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18 For (A)many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you (B)even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ.

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18 For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears,(A) many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.(B)

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