Jeremiah 9:1 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹ Oh, that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night for the slain of my people.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ 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!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ OH, THAT my head were waters and my eyes a reservoir of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ 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!

Common English Bible

¹ If only my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, I would weep day and night for the wounds of my people.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ "Who will provide water for my head, and a fount of tears for my eyes? And then I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 9:1 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 119:136

Streams of tears flow from my eyes, for your law is not obeyed.

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, ‘Where is your God?’

Psalm 55:7

I would flee far away and stay in the desert;

Isaiah 16:9

So I weep, as Jazer weeps, for the vines of Sibmah. Heshbon and Elealeh, I drench you with tears! The shouts of joy over your ripened fruit and over your harvests have been stilled.

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said, ‘Turn away from me; let me weep bitterly. Do not try to console me over the destruction of my people.’

Jeremiah 13:17

If you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly, overflowing with tears, because the Lord’s flock will be taken captive.

Jeremiah 14:17

‘Speak this word to them: ‘ “Let my eyes overflow with tears night and day without ceasing; for the Virgin Daughter, my people, has suffered a grievous wound, a crushing blow.

Jeremiah 3:10

In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretence,’ declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 4:19

Oh, my anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain. Oh, the agony of my heart! My heart pounds within me, I cannot keep silent. For I have heard the sound of the trumpet; I have heard the battle cry.

Jeremiah 5:7

‘Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I supplied all their needs, yet they committed adultery and thronged to the houses of prostitutes.

Jeremiah 6:26

Put on sackcloth, my people, and roll in ashes; mourn with bitter wailing as for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

Jeremiah 8:18

You who are my Comforter in sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

Jeremiah 9:18

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

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you are people who accept bribes to shed blood; you take interest and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbours. And you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Hosea 7:4

They are all adulterers, burning like an oven whose fire the baker need not stir from the kneading of the dough till it rises.