Charles Spurgeon Commentary Jeremiah 9:1

"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!" — Jeremiah 9:1 (ASV)

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!

Matthew Henry well observes that, in the Hebrew, the same word signifies "eye" and "fountain," as if God had given us eyes to weep with as much as to see with, as if there were as much cause to sorrow over sin as to look out upon the beauties of the world.

Magnificent in its poetry, and most touching in its pathos, is this verse, which ought never to have been cut off from the previous chapter: Oh that my head were waters, and my 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, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

This is how God's servants feel about the dying and perishing souls all around them. They cannot bear the thought of the sinner's awful doom; it brings continuous heartbreak and heaviness of spirit upon them. That people should eternally perish, that they should bring on their own heads the doom of their own sin, is no small thing, and therefore the Lord's servant mourns over those who mourn not for themselves. God save every one of us, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake! Amen.

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!

Jeremiah foresaw that the Chaldeans would come up, and so many would be slain that the nation would be almost destroyed.