Jeremiah 9:1

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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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  • Jer 13:17 : 17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.
  • Isa 22:4 : 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling 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 spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
  • Jer 8:21-22 : 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment 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 bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the 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 rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease. 19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine 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 in the top of every street.
  • Lam 3:48-49 : 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 Mine eye trickleth 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 sigh before their eyes. 7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because 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 shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
  • Jer 14:17 : 17 Therefore 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 blow.
  • Jer 4:19 : 19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise 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 meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
  • Ps 119:136 : 136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
  • Isa 16:9 : 9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

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

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

  • Jer 14:17
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    17 Therefore 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 blow.

  • Jer 9:18-19
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    18 And 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.

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

  • Lam 1:16
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    16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desote, because the enemy prevailed.

  • Lam 2:11
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    11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

  • Isa 22:4
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    4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

  • Jer 9:2
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    2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

  • Lam 1:11-13
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    11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

    12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

    13 From above 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 desote and faint all the day.

  • Lam 2:18-19
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    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 rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

    19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine 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 in the top of every street.

  • Jer 10:19
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    19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

  • Jer 8:18-19
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    18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

    19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?

  • Jer 8:21
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    21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

  • Job 16:16
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    16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

  • Lam 1:1-2
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    1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

    2 She 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
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    51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

  • Ezek 9:8
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    8 And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?

  • Ps 69:3
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    3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

  • Ps 31:9
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    9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

  • Ps 119:136
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    136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

  • Job 16:20
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    20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

  • Jer 23:9
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    9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.

  • Ps 6:7
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    7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

  • Ps 42:3
    71%

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

  • Jer 4:31
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    31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

  • Isa 16:9
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    9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

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    20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

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    71%

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

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

  • Jer 15:18
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    18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

  • Lam 1:18
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    18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

  • Jer 13:17
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    17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.

  • Job 3:24
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    24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

  • Job 19:23
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    23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

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

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    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 spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

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

  • Ps 39:12
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    12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
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    9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

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

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

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    2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of usalem is gone up.