Jeremiah 9:1

World English Bible (2000)

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!

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  • Jer 13:17 : 17 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh's flock is taken captive.
  • Isa 22:4 : 4 Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Jer 6:26 : 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 shall suddenly come on us.
  • Jer 8:21-22 : 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me. 22 Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
  • Lam 2:11 : 11 My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver 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.
  • Lam 2:18-19 : 18 Their heart cried to the Lord: wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no respite; don't let the apple of your eye cease. 19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
  • Lam 3:48-49 : 48 My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission,
  • Ezek 21:6-7 : 6 Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your thighs and with bitterness you will sigh before their eyes. 7 It shall be, when they tell you, Why do you sigh? that you shall say, Because of the news, for it comes; 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 comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Jer 14:17 : 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.
  • Jer 4:19 : 19 My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; because you have 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 ask me, "Where is your God?"
  • Ps 119:136 : 136 Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don't observe your law. TZADI
  • Isa 16:9 : 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.

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  • Lam 3:48-49
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    82%

    48My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

    49My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission,

  • Jer 14:17
    80%

    17You 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.

  • Jer 9:18-19
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    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
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    16For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.

  • Lam 2:11
    79%

    11My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver 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.

  • Isa 22:4
    78%

    4Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Jer 9:2
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    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
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    75%

    11All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject.

    12Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.

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

  • Lam 2:18-19
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    75%

    18Their heart cried to the Lord: wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no respite; don't let the apple of your eye cease.

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

  • Jer 10:19
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    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
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    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: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?

  • Jer 8:21
    73%

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

  • Job 16:16
    72%

    16My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

  • Lam 1:1-2
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    72%

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

    2She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.

  • Lam 3:51
    72%

    51My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

  • Ezek 9:8
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    8It happened, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I fell on my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath on Jerusalem?

  • Ps 69:3
    72%

    3I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

  • Ps 31:9
    72%

    9Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

  • Ps 119:136
    71%

    136Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don't observe your law. TZADI

  • Job 16:20
    71%

    20My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to 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 has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.

  • Ps 6:7
    71%

    7My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

  • Ps 42:3
    71%

    3My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

  • Jer 4:31
    71%

    31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, [saying], "Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers."

  • Isa 16:9
    71%

    9Therefore 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.

  • Lam 1:20
    71%

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

  • Jer 9:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; 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 passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.

  • Jer 15:18
    71%

    18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

  • Lam 1:18
    71%

    18Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

  • Jer 13:17
    71%

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

  • Job 3:24
    70%

    24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

  • Job 19:23
    70%

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

  • Mic 1:9
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    9For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

  • Jer 6:26
    70%

    26Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.

  • Joel 1:8
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    8Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

  • Ps 39:12
    70%

    12"Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
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    9For, behold, 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 mixed my drink with tears,

  • Job 6:8
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    8"Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,

  • Jer 14:2
    70%

    2Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.