Jeremiah 9:1

Geneva Bible (1560)

Oh, that mine head were full of water and mine eyes a fountaine of teares, that I might weepe day and night for the slayne of the daughter of my people.

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  • Jer 13:17 : 17 But if ye will not heare this, my soule shall weepe in secrete for your pride, and mine eye shall weepe and drop downe teares, because the Lords flocke is caried away captiue.
  • Isa 22:4 : 4 Therefore said I, Turne away from me: I wil weepe bitterly: labour not to comfort mee for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Jer 6:26 : 26 O daughter of my people, girde thee with sackecloth, and wallowe thy selfe in the ashes: make lamentation, and bitter mourning as for thine onely sonne: for the destroier shall suddenly come vpon vs.
  • Jer 8:21-22 : 21 I am sore vexed for the hurt of ye daughter of my people: I am heauie, & astonishment hath taken me. 22 Is there no balme at Gilead? is there no Physition there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recouered.
  • Lam 2:11 : 11 Mine eyes doe saile with teares: my bowels swell: my liuer is powred vpon the earth, for the destructio of the daughter of my people, because the children and sucklings swoone in the streetes of the citie.
  • Lam 2:18-19 : 18 Their heart cryed vnto the Lord, O wall of the daughter Zion, let teares runne downe like a riuer, day and night: take thee no rest, neither let the apple of thine eye cease. 19 Arise, cry in the night: in the beginning of the watches powre out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift vp thine handes towarde him for the life of thy yong children, that faint for hunger in the corners of all the streetes.
  • Lam 3:48-49 : 48 Mine eye casteth out riuers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 Mine eye droppeth without stay and ceaseth not,
  • Ezek 21:6-7 : 6 Mourne therefore, thou sonne of man, as in the paine of thy reines, and mourne bitterly before them. 7 And if they say vnto thee, Wherefore mournest thou? then answere, Because of the bruite: for it commeth, and euery heart shall melt, and all handes shall be weake, and all mindes shall faint, and all knees shall fall away as water: beholde, it commeth, and shall be done, saith the Lord God.
  • Jer 14:17 : 17 Therefore thou shalt say this worde vnto them, Let mine eyes drop downe teares night & day without ceasing: for the virgine daughter of my people is destroyed with a great destruction, and with a sore grieuous plague.
  • Jer 4:19 : 19 My bely, my bely, I am pained, euen at the very heart: mine heart is troubled within me: I cannot be still: for my soule hath heard the sounde of the trumpet, and the alarme of the battell.
  • Ps 42:3 : 3 My teares haue bin my meate day & night, while they dayly say vnto me, Where is thy God?
  • Ps 119:136 : 136 Mine eyes gush out with riuers of water, because they keepe not thy Lawe.
  • Isa 16:9 : 9 Therefore will I weepe with the weeping of Iaazer, & of the vine of Sibmah, O Heshbon: and Elealeh, I will make thee drunke with my teares, because vpon thy sommer fruits, and vpon thy haruest a showting is fallen.

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  • Lam 3:48-49
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    82%

    48Mine eye casteth out riuers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

    49Mine eye droppeth without stay and ceaseth not,

  • Jer 14:17
    80%

    17Therefore thou shalt say this worde vnto them, Let mine eyes drop downe teares night & day without ceasing: for the virgine daughter of my people is destroyed with a great destruction, and with a sore grieuous plague.

  • Jer 9:18-19
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    80%

    18And let them make haste, & let them take vp a lamentation for vs, that our eyes may cast out teares & our eye liddes gush out of water.

    19For a lamentable noyse is heard out of Zion, Howe are we destroyed, and vtterly confounded, for we haue forsaken the land, and our dwellings haue cast vs out.

  • Lam 1:16
    80%

    16For these things I weepe: mine eye, euen mine eye casteth out water, because the comforter that should refresh my soule, is farre from me: my children are desolate, because the enemie preuailed.

  • Lam 2:11
    79%

    11Mine eyes doe saile with teares: my bowels swell: my liuer is powred vpon the earth, for the destructio of the daughter of my people, because the children and sucklings swoone in the streetes of the citie.

  • Isa 22:4
    78%

    4Therefore said I, Turne away from me: I wil weepe bitterly: labour not to comfort mee for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Jer 9:2
    77%

    2Oh, that I had in the wildernes a cottage of wayfaring men, that I might leaue my people, and go from them: for they be all adulterers & an assembly of rebels,

  • Lam 1:11-13
    3 verses
    75%

    11All her people sigh and seeke their bread: they haue giuen their pleasant thinges for meate to refresh the soule: see, O Lorde, and consider: for I am become vile.

    12Haue ye no regarde, all yee that passe by this way? behold, and see, if there be any sorowe like vnto my sorowe, which is done vnto mee, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce wrath.

    13From aboue hath hee sent fire into my bones, which preuaile against them: he hath spred a net for my feete, and turned me backe: hee hath made me desolate, and daily in heauinesse.

  • Lam 2:18-19
    2 verses
    75%

    18Their heart cryed vnto the Lord, O wall of the daughter Zion, let teares runne downe like a riuer, day and night: take thee no rest, neither let the apple of thine eye cease.

    19Arise, cry in the night: in the beginning of the watches powre out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift vp thine handes towarde him for the life of thy yong children, that faint for hunger in the corners of all the streetes.

  • Jer 10:19
    73%

    19Wo is me for my destruction, and my grieuous plague: but I thought, Yet it is my sorow, and I will beare it.

  • Jer 8:18-19
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    18I would haue comforted my selfe against sorowe, but mine heart is heauie in me.

    19Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people for feare of them of a farre countrey, Is not the Lorde in Zion? is not her king in her? Why haue they prouoked mee to anger with their grauen images, and with the vanities of a strange god?

  • Jer 8:21
    73%

    21I am sore vexed for the hurt of ye daughter of my people: I am heauie, & astonishment hath taken me.

  • Job 16:16
    72%

    16My face is withered with weeping, and the shadow of death is vpon mine eyes,

  • Lam 1:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1Howe doeth the citie remaine solitarie that was full of people? she is as a widowe: she that was great among the nations, & princesse among the prouinces, is made tributarie.

    2She weepeth continually in the night, and her teares runne downe by her cheekes: among all her louers, she hath none to comfort her: all her friendes haue delt vnfaithfully with her, and are her enemies.

  • Lam 3:51
    72%

    51Mine eye breaketh mine heart because of all the daughters of my citie.

  • Ezek 9:8
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    8Nowe when they had slaine them, and I had escaped, I fell downe vpon my face, and cryed, saying, Ah Lorde God, wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel, in powring out thy wrath vpon Ierusalem?

  • Ps 69:3
    72%

    3I am wearie of crying: my throte is drie: mine eyes faile, whiles I waite for my God.

  • Ps 31:9
    72%

    9Haue mercie vpon mee, O Lorde: for I am in trouble: mine eye, my soule and my bellie are consumed with griefe.

  • Ps 119:136
    71%

    136Mine eyes gush out with riuers of water, because they keepe not thy Lawe.

  • Job 16:20
    71%

    20My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.

  • Jer 23:9
    71%

    9Mine heart breaketh within mee, because of the prophets, all my bones shake: I am like a drunken man (and like a man whome wine hath ouercome) for the presence of the Lorde and for his holie wordes.

  • Ps 6:7
    71%

    7Mine eye is dimmed for despight, and sunke in because of all mine enemies.

  • Ps 42:3
    71%

    3My teares haue bin my meate day & night, while they dayly say vnto me, Where is thy God?

  • Jer 4:31
    71%

    31For I haue heard a noyse as of a woman trauailing, or as one labouring of her first child, euen the voyce of the daughter Zion that sigheth and stretcheth out her handes: woe is me nowe: for my soule fainteth because of the murtherers.

  • Isa 16:9
    71%

    9Therefore will I weepe with the weeping of Iaazer, & of the vine of Sibmah, O Heshbon: and Elealeh, I will make thee drunke with my teares, because vpon thy sommer fruits, and vpon thy haruest a showting is fallen.

  • Lam 1:20
    71%

    20Behold, O Lorde, howe I am troubled: my bowels swell: mine heart is turned within me, for I am ful of heauinesse: the sword spoyleth abroad, as death doeth at home.

  • Jer 9:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9Shal I not visit them for these things, saith the Lorde? Or shall not my soule be auenged on such a nation as this?

    10Vpon the mountaines will I take vp a weeping and a lamentation, and vpon the fayre places of the wildernes a mourning, because they are burnt vp: so that none can passe through them, neyther can men heare the voyce of the flocke: both the foule of the aire, and the beast are fled away and gone.

  • Jer 15:18
    71%

    18Why is mine heauines continuall? And my plague desperate and cannot be healed? why art thou vnto me as a lyar, and as waters that faile?

  • Lam 1:18
    71%

    18The Lorde is righteous: for I haue rebelled against his commandement: heare, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorowe: my virgins and my yong men are gone into captiuitie.

  • Jer 13:17
    71%

    17But if ye will not heare this, my soule shall weepe in secrete for your pride, and mine eye shall weepe and drop downe teares, because the Lords flocke is caried away captiue.

  • Job 3:24
    70%

    24For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.

  • Job 19:23
    70%

    23Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,

  • Mic 1:9
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    9For her plagues are grieuous: for it is come into Iudah: the enemie is come vnto the gate of my people, vnto Ierusalem.

  • Jer 6:26
    70%

    26O daughter of my people, girde thee with sackecloth, and wallowe thy selfe in the ashes: make lamentation, and bitter mourning as for thine onely sonne: for the destroier shall suddenly come vpon vs.

  • Joel 1:8
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    8Mourne like a virgine girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

  • Ps 39:12
    70%

    12Heare my prayer, O Lord, & hearken vnto my cry: keepe not silence at my teares, for I am a strager with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
    70%

    9For lo, our fathers are fallen by the sword, and our sonnes, and our daughters, and our wiues are in captiuitie for the same cause.

  • Ps 102:9
    70%

    9Surely I haue eaten asshes as bread, and mingled my drinke with weeping,

  • Job 6:8
    70%

    8Oh that I might haue my desire, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

  • Jer 14:2
    70%

    2Iudah hath mourned, and the gates thereof are desolate, they haue bene brought to heauinesse vnto the grounde, and the cry of Ierusalem goeth vp.