Jeremiah 9:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

O that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Cross References

Jeremiah 13:17

But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said: “Look away from me; let me weep bitter tears; do not try to comfort me for the destruction of my beloved people.”

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people, because infants and babes faint in the streets of the city.

Jeremiah 6:26

O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only child, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

Jeremiah 14:17

You shall say to them this word: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is struck down with a crushing blow, with a very grievous wound.

Isaiah 16:9

Therefore I weep as Jazer weeps for the vines of Sibmah; I drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh, for the shout over your fruit harvest and your grain harvest has ceased.

Psalm 119:136

My eyes shed streams of tears because your law is not kept.

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me continually, “Where is your God?”

Jeremiah 4:19

My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent, for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Jeremiah 8:18

My joy is gone; grief is upon me; my heart is sick.

Jeremiah 9:18

let them quickly raise a dirge over us, so that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids flow with water.

Psalm 55:7

truly, I would flee far away; I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah

Jeremiah 3:10

Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart but only in pretense, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 5:7

How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me and have sworn by those who are no gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of prostitutes.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you, they take bribes to shed blood; you take both advance interest and accrued interest and make gain of your neighbors by extortion, and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.

Hosea 7:4

They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker does not need to stir the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.