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 joined to last chapter, as Jeremiah 9:23 in the Hebrew (cf. Isaiah 22:4, "I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people;" Lamentations 2:11; Lamentations 3:48, "Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people").