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Jeremiah 9:1–2

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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 I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
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From verse 1

  1. Jeremiah 13:17Rank 1 from verse 1
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    17But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock is carried away captive.

  2. Isaiah 22:4Rank 2 from verse 1
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    4Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

  3. Jeremiah 8:21–22Rank 3 from verse 1
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    21For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

    22Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

  4. Lamentations 2:11Rank 4 from verse 1
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    11Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

  5. Jeremiah 6:26Rank 5 from verse 1
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    26¶ O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

  6. Ezekiel 21:6–7Rank 6 from verse 1
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    6Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.

    7And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord God.

  7. Isaiah 16:9Rank 7 from verse 1
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    9¶ Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

  8. Jeremiah 14:17Rank 8 from verse 1
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    17¶ Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

  9. Lamentations 2:18–19Rank 9 from verse 1
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    18Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

    19Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

  10. Lamentations 3:48–49Rank 10 from verse 1
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    48Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

    49Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

  11. Psalms 119:136Rank 11 from verse 1
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    136Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

  12. Psalms 42:3Rank 12 from verse 1
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    3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

  13. Jeremiah 4:19Rank 13 from verse 1
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    19¶ My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

From verse 2

  1. Jeremiah 23:10Rank 1 from verse 2
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    10For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

  2. Jeremiah 5:7–8Rank 2 from verse 2
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    7¶ How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.

    8They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.

  3. Hosea 4:2Rank 3 from verse 2
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    2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

  4. Hosea 7:4Rank 4 from verse 2
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    4They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

  5. Jeremiah 12:1Rank 5 from verse 2
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    1RIGHTEOUS art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

  6. Jeremiah 12:6Rank 6 from verse 2
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    6For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.

  7. Ezekiel 22:10–11Rank 7 from verse 2
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    10In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.

    11And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.

  8. Hosea 5:7Rank 8 from verse 2
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    7They have dealt treacherously against the Lord: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.

  9. Hosea 6:7Rank 9 from verse 2
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    7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

  10. James 4:4Rank 10 from verse 2
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    4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

  11. Malachi 2:11Rank 11 from verse 2
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    11¶ Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

  12. Micah 7:1–7Rank 12 from verse 2
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    1WOE is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

    2The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

    3¶ That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

    4The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

    5¶ Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

    6For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

    7Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

  13. Psalms 120:5–7Rank 13 from verse 2
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    5Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

    6My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.

    7I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

  14. Psalms 55:6–8Rank 14 from verse 2
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    6And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

    7Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.

    8I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

  15. Zephaniah 3:4Rank 15 from verse 2
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    4Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

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Jeremiah 9:1

COMBINED MEANING

head

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The upper part of the body; a chief, source, summit, or leading position.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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eyes

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The bodily organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, observation, perception, understanding, desire, judgment, estimation, favour, or the presence and view before which something occurs.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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tears

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Drops of fluid shed from the eyes in weeping, grief, pain, or strong feeling.

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might

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Sense 1: Power or strength. Sense 2: An auxiliary expressing possibility or permission.

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weep

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To shed tears or lament in grief, sorrow, compassion, repentance, joy, or other deep feeling.

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day

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Sense 1: Light or the period of light between morning and evening, as distinguished from night. Sense 2: A complete daily cycle. Sense 3: A specified time, occasion, period, age, or season.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

night

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1. The dark part of the daily cycle distinguished from day, from evening until morning, or any portion of it. 2. A time or condition compared with night or darkness.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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people

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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.

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Jeremiah 9:2

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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wilderness

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Uncultivated, desolate, sparsely inhabited, or uninhabited land; a desert, wild country, or solitary region.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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lodging

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Sense 1: A temporary place of rest or residence. Sense 2: The act or state of staying for a time.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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place

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Sense 1: A physical location or room. Sense 2: A position or office. Sense 3: An occasion, circumstance, or passage. Sense 4: To set, fix, locate, or establish.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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might

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Sense 1: Power or strength. Sense 2: An auxiliary expressing possibility or permission.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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leave

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1. To depart, cease from, abandon, forsake, release, permit, entrust, bequeath, cause or allow to remain, omit, exclude, or not take. 2. As a noun, permission or liberty to act, including permission to depart.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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people

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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

assembly

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A company or congregation gathered together; the act, occasion, or appointed meeting of gathering, whether common, civil, military, or solemn.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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8:22Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

9:1OH 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!

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9:2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

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9:3And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord.

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