Jeremías 9:1

1 Quién me diera que mi cabeza se hiciera aguas, y mis ojos fuente de lágrimas, para que yo llorara día y noche por los muertos de la hija de mi pueblo.

Jeremías 9:1 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 9:1

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. The prophet wishes that his head was turned and dissolved into water, and that tears might flow from his eyes as water issues out from a fountain; and he suggests, that could this be, it would not be sufficient to deplore the miserable estate of his people, and to express the inward grief and sorrow of his mind on account of it. That I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my
people;
the design of all this is to set forth the greatness and horribleness of the destruction, signifying that words were wanting to express it, and tears to lament it; and to awaken the attention of the people to it, who were quite hardened, insensible, and stupid. The Jewish writers close the eighth chapter with this verse, and begin the ninth with the following.

Jeremías 9:1 In-Context

1 Quién me diera que mi cabeza se hiciera aguas, y mis ojos fuente de lágrimas, para que yo llorara día y noche por los muertos de la hija de mi pueblo.

2 Quién me diera en el desierto un albergue de caminantes, para dejar a mi pueblo y alejarme de ellos. Porque todos ellos son adúlteros, una asamblea de traidores.

3 Tienden su lengua como su arco; la mentira y no la verdad prevalece en la tierra; porque de mal en mal proceden, y a mí no me conocendeclara el SEÑOR.

4 Guárdese cada uno de su prójimo, y no confíe en ningún hermano; porque todo hermano obra con engaño, y todo prójimo anda calumniando.

5 Cada uno engaña a su prójimo, y no habla la verdad, han enseñado sus lenguas a hablar mentiras; se afanan por cometer iniquidad.