Jeremiah 9:1

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9 ^[a]¹Oh, 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

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

Jeremiah 9:1 in all English translations

Jeremiah 9:18

New International Version

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

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Jeremiah 14:17

New International Version

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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Lamentations 3:48

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

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Ezekiel 9:4

New International Version

⁴and 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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