If my head were a flowing spring,
my eyes a fountain of tears,
I would weep day and night(A)
over the slain of my dear[a] people.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:1 Lit slain among the daughter of my

Jeremiah’s Request

17 You are to speak this word to them:
Let my eyes overflow with tears;
day and night may they not stop,(A)
for my dearest people[a]
have been destroyed by a crushing blow,(B)
an extremely severe wound.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 14:17 Lit for the virgin daughter of my people

48 My eyes flow with streams of tears
because of the destruction of my dear people.

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