...In Jeremiah 9, we read as follows: 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! 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and...

...desolations by which their sins were visited. Jeremiah wished that his eyes were a fountain of tears, that he might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of his people, for the Lord's flock that was carried away captive. : LJ LJ was the grief of Him whose...

...LETTER XLVI,S To afaSen virgin, l , Now is the time to quote the words of the prophet and to say, " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people." * Though they are wrapped in profound silence and lie stunned by their misfortune, robbed of all sense...

...nothing in comparison to the catastrophe. Jeremiah the prophet already entreated before his Maker: "Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people" [Jeremiah 8:23]. That is to say, God should create Jeremiah as a new creature, with a head of water,...

...copied the next two paragraphs (with minor variations) from Lachrymae Londinenses (1626: 5-7). 198 'Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people.' Father and Mother lamenting the losse of their childe, their children, nay some Rachels mourning for...

...them shall pass away from them. (7)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! (8) I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of...

...daughter of my people been restored? Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night, for the slain of the daughter of my people! O that I had in the desert a wayfarers' lodging place; that I might leave my people, and go from them!"...

...the latter thus saying : " Oh, that my head were water and mine eyes a fountain of tears ! And I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people." * Or also such as were those tears of which we hear in the hundred and first Psalm ; " For I have eaten...

...my people recovered?" (8:22; see also 46:11). Alas, too deep is the wound for Gilead's balm to heal! "Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people!" (9:1). Well has Jeremiah been called the "Weeping Prophet." His was not the pharisaic spirit that could...

...in Jeremiah. "Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears," cries Jeremiah, "that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!" (9:1). Crying seems to be the only means to express something of the horror and pain of the forthcoming...