...dia e noite a mortandade da filha do meu povo l Ah te eu tivera no deserto um alvergue de peregrinot! O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...the wilderness a lodging-place of way-faring men! Of Climax. Climax, or gradation, is a figure by which, we rise gradually the sentence, repeating successively...

...indignation of the father of the fatherless, and the judge of the widows, they are ready to say, " O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughters of my people." Nor is their grief assuaged, or their righteous indignation abated, by the...

...broken heart in 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's concern led to weeping and travailing. The psalmist knew something of soul travail and tears...

...ought to cry out like Jeremiah, "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!" (Jer.9:l). The personal soul winner needs a broken heart. The cold and callous sinner can, it may be,...

...church and to say with Jeremiah, "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!" (Jen 9:1). But to indulge in mourning without putting our hands to work will be of little avail. It...

...concern Jeremiah had, who said, "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!" (9:1). Let me repeat this last point: We of faith should manifest a concern for others. I told the...

...devil, and to the assaults of wicked men" (21). Like Jeremiah in Lamentations, Stewart moans in poetry: "O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night, for the transgressions of the daughters of my people" (5). Outside the sphere of domesticity herself as seer,...

...taken hold on me. Jeremiah 9:1-2 [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...

...the door. 9 Of Vows and Tears 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 9:1-9 According to John Jr., his father repelled a scolding visit from some of the deacons...

...and impending judgment. "O that my head were waters," he said, "and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!" (Jer. 9: 1 ). That's the spirit of a loving prophet, and this was typical of Jeremiah's lament over...