This verse is joined in the Hebrew to the preceding chapter. But any break at all here interrupts the meaning.

A fountain - Rather, “a…

Oh, that my head were waters ...! —Literally, Who will give my head waters ... ? The f…

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, then, I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!…

He follows the same subject. During times of tranquility, when nothing but joyful voices were heard among the Jews, he bewails, as one in the great…

Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of
tears
Or, "who will give to …

Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he could weep more, that he might rouse the people to a due sense of the hand of God. But even the desert, without c…

1. Here, he shows their obstinacy in sins that are directly against their neighbor.

First, he speaks of his own compa ion regarding t…