Jeremiah 9:1

World Messianic Bible British Edition

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Cross References

Psalm 119:136

Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don’t observe your Torah. TZADHE

Psalm 42:3

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

Psalm 55:7

Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness.” Selah.

Isaiah 16:9

Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labour to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 13:17

But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

Jeremiah 14:17

“You shall say this word to them: “‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

Jeremiah 3:10

Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretence,” says the LORD.

Jeremiah 4:19

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the shofar, the alarm of war.

Jeremiah 5:7

“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.

Jeremiah 6:26

Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.

Jeremiah 8:18

Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

Jeremiah 9:18

Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My bile is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbours by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord GOD.

Hosea 7:4

They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.