Oh that my head were waters— We have here a fine instance of the pathetic, wherein Jeremiah so much excels. He sympathizes with the calamities of his people, in order to excite them to a sense of their own misfortunes, and to prevail upon them to humble themselves under the afflicting hand of the Almighty.
CHAPTER IX _The prophet bitterly laments the terrible judgments about to be_ _inflicted upon his countrymen, and points out some of the evils_ _which have provoked the Divine Majesty_, 1-9. _Judea...
This verse is joined in the Hebrew to the preceding chapter. But any break at all here interrupts the meaning. A FOUNTAIN - Rather, “a reservoir,” in which tears had been stored up, so that the proph...
CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The prophet's complaint and Jehovah's answer (Jeremiah 9:1) _ 2. The cause of desolation and destruction (Jeremiah 9:10) 3. The call for the mourning and wailing women (Jeremiah 9:17...
JEREMIAH 8:18 TO JEREMIAH 9:1. JEREMIAH'S SORROW OVER JUDAH'S SUFFERING. The prophet, in sorrowful sympathy with his people, hears in anticipation the cry of the exiles and Yahweh's answer. They repro...
OH THAT MY HEAD WERE WATERS, AND MINE EYES. FOUNTAIN OF TEARS. The, calamities that were to come upon Israel filled the prophet with such sorrow that he felt as though his tears should flow like an ex...
OH THAT, &C. Figure of speech _Pathopoeia._ WATERS... FOUNTAIN... TEARS. Figure of speech _Catabasis._ SLAIN. Not healed by "balm" or "physician"....
Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 9:1. Forecast of punishment as the result of sin The section may be thus summarized. (i) Jeremiah 8:4. Human fortunes and conduct are as a rule liable to change, but Israel...
D. Unbearable Pain on the Part of the Prophet Jeremiah 8:18 to Jeremiah 9:1 TRANSLATION (18) O my Comfort against sorrow! My heart is faint within me! (19) Behold, the sound of the cry of the daughte...
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! OH THAT MY HEAD WERE WATERS. This verse is more fitly joi...
1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
IX. (1) OH, THAT MY HEAD WERE WATERS...! — Literally, _Who will give my head waters..._? The form of a question was, in Hebrew idiom as in Latin, the natural utterance of desire. In the Hebrew text th...
_[Jeremiah 8:23]_ מִֽי ־יִתֵּ֤ן רֹאשִׁי֙ מַ֔יִם וְ...
Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin
NATIONAL PERVERSITY Jeremiah 9:1-16 Jeremiah 9:1-6 Once the voice of joy and thanksgiving had been heard in Jerusalem, but now on every side there was bloodshed, and the patriot-prophet could only w...
In answer to his own question, Jeremiah sighed for some adequate means of expressing the anguish of his heart, and then for escape to some lonely place in the wilderness. All this was in the nature of...
O that my head were (a) waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! (a) The prophet shows the great compassion that he had tow...
_To. Hebrew is more expressive. (Calmet) --- "Who will give my head waters, (Haydock) or change it into water, and my eyes into a fountain." (Calmet) --- Protestants, "Oh that my head were waters." (H...
CONTENTS This Chapter opens with the cry of the Prophet over the sins and calamities of the people. Jeremiah having poured out his soul upon this occasion, and wept before the throne, prosecutes his...
How blessed is it to behold faithful ministers, who enter into a deep concern for their people. What a beautiful portrait is here undesignedly drawn of Jeremiah. How endeared is that servant of the Lo...
_A TRUE PATRIOT_ ‘Oh … that I might weep day and night.’ Jeremiah 9:1 How was this one man able to do so much for Israel, to give it no less than six hundred years of life? Because of his character...
He follows the same subject. During times of tranquillity, when nothing but joyful voices were heard among the Jews, he bewails, as one in the greatest grief, the miseries of the people; and being not...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...
OH THAT MY HEAD WERE WATERS, AND MINE EYES A FOUNTAIN OF TEARS,.... Or, "who will give to my head water, and to mine eyes a fountain of tears?" as the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions. T...
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! Ver. 1. _Oh that mine head were waters._] _Mira sermonis tr...
_O that my head_, &c. The prophet sympathizes with the calamities of his people, as before, Jeremiah 1:19; Jeremiah 8:21; and thereby excites them to a sense of their own misfortunes, that they might...
THE DECEIT OF THE PEOPLE...
Oh, that my head were waters, an inexhaustible reservoir, AND MINE EYES A FOUNTAIN OF TEARS, flowing in an endless stream, THAT I MIGHT WEEP DAY AND NIGHT FOR THE SLAIN OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE, t...
THAT MY HEAD WERE WATERS: _ Heb._ who will give my head etc....
1-11 Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he could weep more, that he might rouse the people to a due sense of the hand of God. But even the desert, without communion with God, through Christ Jesus, and th...
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 9 The prophet's lamentation continueth over their adultery, deceit, idolatry, which God would certainly punish, and they should be laid waste, when they should sufficiently lament, JE...
Jeremiah 9:1 Oh H5414 (H8799) head H7218 waters H4325 eyes H5869 fountain H4726 tears H1832 weep H1058 ...
Jeremiah 9:1 The "weeping prophet" is the title often given to Jeremiah. He is not a popular prophet. Unhappy men are not commonly popular men. Yet this one had ample reason for the depression under w...
Jeremiah 9:1. _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!_ Jeremiah foresaw that the Chaldeans would c...
Jeremiah 9:1. _Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, then, I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!_ Matthew Henry well observes that, in the H...
CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Detestation of the sins of the people. The vanity of trusting in anything but God. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those who will not know God...
Jeremiah 9:2. _Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodgingplace of wayfaring men._ In countries where the peasantry are very poor, travellers provide for themselves as they can. Even in Spain many of th...
_Oh that my head were waters._ CHRISTIAN ANGUISH OVER SPIRITUAL DESOLATION There is a solemn beauty in Jeremiah’s devotion to the welfare of his fellow countrymen. Blinded as they were by sin, they c...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 9:1 Jeremiah is often called the “weeping prophet” based on this verse, but this nickname does not do justice to his overall ministry. He cares deeply for Judah, but he does...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. For Chronology and History, see chap. 7. 1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 9:26. “_Egypt_.” sit. on N.E. angle of Africa; a vast plain; in general features it may be...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 9:1 The Hebrew more correctly attaches this verse to Jeremiah 8:1. OH THAT MY HEAD WERE WATERS, etc.! A quaint conceit, it may be said. But "if we have been going on pace for pace...
Now Jeremiah declares, Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes were as a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Oh that I had in the wildernes...
Ezekiel 21:6; Ezekiel 21:7; Isaiah 16:9; Isaiah 22:4; Jeremiah 13:17;...