 | Jimmy Jack McBee Roberts - Religion - 2002 - 450 pages
...following passage (p. 182): "Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears that I may weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people" (Jer 8:23). Who said this verse? If you wish to suggest that Jeremiah said it, it is not possible for... | |
 | Cindy Ross - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2003 - 24 pages
...of my (God's) people slightly, saying, 'peace, peace,' when there is no peace." Later, Jeremiah says "Oh, that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people!" "My people" is a metaphor for the Church. Here God speaks as a heart-broken Daddy whose "little girl"... | |
 | Fred Cuthbertson - Religion - 2003 - 150 pages
...the sins of Israel during the Babylonian captivity. He express his concern over Israel in one place, "Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people"(Jeremiah 9: 1). In the New Testament, the apostle Peter, a strongwilled tempestuous disciple... | |
 | Manning Marable - History - 2003 - 708 pages
...the agony and anxiety of the moment, as though we could cry out in the langauge of a Prophet of old: "Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the" degradation "of my people! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I... | |
 | Martin Robison Delany - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 526 pages
...the agony and anxiety of the moment, as though we could cry out in the language of a Prophet of old: "Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the" degradation "of my people! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of way- faring men; that... | |
 | Paul Farmer - Social Science - 2003 - 429 pages
...been restored? 31 Bearing Witness 0 that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that 1 might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Jeremiah 8:2.2.— 9:1 Kay, a community of fewer than three thousand people, stretches along an unpaved... | |
 | Jacob Neusner - Religion - 2003 - 250 pages
...One, blessed be He, said, 'Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears that I may weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people' (Jer. 8:23)." The shepherd weeps for the loss of all his possessions but the staff and basket, just... | |
 | Yoel Natan - Religion - 2003 - 395 pages
...RECOVERED? — 2al21 OH THAT MY [F] HEAD WERE WATERS, AND MY [F] EYES A SPRING OF TEARS, THAT I [F] MIGHT WEEP DAY AND NIGHT FOR THE SLAIN OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY [F] PEOPLE! ^29^2 OH THAT | jpj HAQ |N THE WILDERNESS A LODGING-PLACE OF WAYFARING MEN; THAT I [F]... | |
 | Raymond Barber - Bible - 2004 - 368 pages
...writes a letter to the captives (chapter 29). His message broke his own heart as he exclaimed in 9:1, "Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people!" Specific Contents of Jeremiah's Message More specifically, his message can be described as being twofold:... | |
 | Evan Hunter - English fiction - 2003 - 308 pages
..." 'Is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain — ' " His voice broke. He began crying openly. " ' — of the daughter of my people,' " he said,... | |
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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! 
