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 Hebrew, the same word signifies «eye» and «fountain», as if God had as much given us eyes to weep with as to see with, as if there were as much cause to sorrow over sin as to look out upon the beauties of the world. Magnificent in its poetry, and most touching in its pathos, is this verse, which ought never to have been cut off from the previous chapter: «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!»
This exposition consisted of readings from Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1.