Jeremiah 9:1
If only my head could produce water, and my eyes be a fountain of tears! 1 For I wish to weep day and night for those among the daughter of my people who have been killed. 1
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Psalms 42:3My tears have been my food day and night, 1 while my enemies are always saying to me, “Where is your God?” 1
Psalms 119:136Streams of tears run down from my eyes 1 because people do not observe your law. TSADHE 1
Isaiah 22:4Therefore I said, “Do not look at me, I will weep bitterly; 1 do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.” 1
Jeremiah 4:19My heart! My heart! I am in anguish in my heart. My heart is turbulent within me. I cannot keep quiet for I hear the sound of the horn, an alarm for battle.
Jeremiah 6:26Daughter of my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes; 1 mourn with painful sobs as for an only son, 1 for the destroyer will suddenly come upon us. 1
Jeremiah 13:17So if you will not listen, I will weep alone because of your arrogance. 1 My eyes will certainly weep and flow with tears, for Yahweh's flock has been taken captive. 1
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 9:1
In this chapter the prophet goes on faithfully to reprove sin and to threaten God's judgments for it, and yet bitterly to lament both, as one that neither rejoiced at iniquity nor was glad at calamities. I. He here expresses his great grief for the miseries of Judah and Jerusalem, and his detestation of their sins, which brought those miseries upon them, ver. 1-11 . II. He justifies God in the greatness of the destruction brought upon them, ver. 9-16 . III. He calls upon others to bewail the woeful case of Judah… Read the whole commentary →