 | Philip Schaff - Religion - 2007 - 652 pages
...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... | |
 | Ilana Pardes - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 206 pages
...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... | |
 | Harold Cox - Religion - 2008 - 388 pages
...for his people. Jeremiah 9:1, "Oh that my head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!" Revelation 3:17, "...Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing..."... | |
 | H. A. Ironside - Religion - 236 pages
...wound for Gilead's balm to heal! "Oh 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!" (9:1). Well has Jeremiah been called the "Weeping Prophet." His was not the pharisaic spirit that could... | |
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