Verse 1

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.

Referenced Verses

  • 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.