Jeremiah 9:1

American Standard Version (1901)

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!

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 13:17 : 17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah's flock is taken captive.
  • Isa 22:4 : 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Jer 6:26 : 26 O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.
  • Jer 8:21-22 : 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me. 22 Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
  • Lam 2:11 : 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
  • Lam 2:18-19 : 18 Their heart cried unto the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give thyself no respite; let not the apple of thine eye cease. 19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
  • Lam 3:48-49 : 48 Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
  • Ezek 21:6-7 : 6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man; with the breaking of thy loins and with bitterness shalt thou sigh before their eyes. 7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt say, Because of the tidings, for it cometh; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord Jehovah.
  • Jer 14:17 : 17 And thou shalt say this word unto them, Let mine 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.
  • Jer 4:19 : 19 My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace; because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
  • Ps 42:3 : 3 My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
  • Ps 119:136 : 136 Streams of water run down mine eyes, Because they observe not thy law.
  • Isa 16:9 : 9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest the [battle] shout is fallen.

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  • Lam 3:48-49
    2 verses
    82%

    48Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

    49Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

  • Jer 14:17
    80%

    17And thou shalt say this word unto them, Let mine 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.

  • Jer 9:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18and 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.

    19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

  • Lam 1:16
    80%

    16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.

  • Lam 2:11
    79%

    11Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

  • Isa 22:4
    78%

    4Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Jer 9:2
    77%

    2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

  • Lam 1:11-13
    3 verses
    75%

    11All her people sigh, they seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: See, O Jehovah, and behold; for I am become abject.

    12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is brought upon me, Wherewith Jehovah hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.

    13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Lam 2:18-19
    2 verses
    75%

    18Their heart cried unto the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give thyself no respite; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

    19Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

  • Jer 10:19
    73%

    19Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.

  • Jer 8:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

    19Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: Is not Jehovah in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities?

  • Jer 8:21
    73%

    21For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me.

  • Job 16:16
    72%

    16My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

  • Lam 1:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! She is become as a widow, that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces is become tributary!

    2She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; Among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.

  • Lam 3:51
    72%

    51Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

  • Ezek 9:8
    72%

    8And it came to pass, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Jehovah! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy wrath upon Jerusalem?

  • Ps 69:3
    72%

    3I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

  • Ps 31:9
    72%

    9Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.

  • Ps 119:136
    71%

    136Streams of water run down mine eyes, Because they observe not thy law.

  • Job 16:20
    71%

    20My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

  • Jer 23:9
    71%

    9Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of Jehovah, and because of his holy words.

  • Ps 6:7
    71%

    7Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.

  • Ps 42:3
    71%

    3My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

  • Jer 4:31
    71%

    31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.

  • Isa 16:9
    71%

    9Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest the [battle] shout is fallen.

  • Lam 1:20
    71%

    20Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

  • Jer 9:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9Shall I not visit them for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

    10For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passeth through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts are fled, they are gone.

  • Jer 15:18
    71%

    18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

  • Lam 1:18
    71%

    18Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

  • Jer 13:17
    71%

    17But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah's flock is taken captive.

  • Job 3:24
    70%

    24For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

  • Job 19:23
    70%

    23Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

  • Mic 1:9
    70%

    9For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

  • Jer 6:26
    70%

    26O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

  • Joel 1:8
    70%

    8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

  • Ps 39:12
    70%

    12Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
    70%

    9For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

  • Ps 102:9
    70%

    9For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,

  • Job 6:8
    70%

    8Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!

  • Jer 14:2
    70%

    2Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they sit in black upon the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.