Jeremiah 9:1
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.
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Psalms 42:3My teares haue bin my meate day and night, while they dayly say vnto me, Where is thy God?
Psalms 119:136Mine eyes gush out with riuers of water, because they keepe not thy Lawe.
Isaiah 22:4Therefore said I, Turne away from me: I wil weepe bitterly: labour not to comfort mee for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Jeremiah 4:19My 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.
Jeremiah 6:26O 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.
Jeremiah 13:17But 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.
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 →