Yeremia 9:1

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sekiranya kepalaku penuh air, dan mataku jadi pancuran air mata, maka siang malam aku akan menangisi orang-orang puteri bangsaku yang terbunuh!

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sekiranya kepalaku penuh air, dan mataku jadi pancuran air mata, maka siang malam aku akan menangisi orang-orang puteri bangsaku yang terbunuh!

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Aduh, jikalau kiranya kepalaku dari pada air dan matakupun suatu pancaran air mata, niscaya siang malam aku akan menangisi segala orang puteri bangsaku yang telah dibunuh.

Contextual Overview

¹ O who wyll geue my head water inough, and a wel of teares for mine eyes, that I may weepe night and day for the slaughter of my people? ² Woulde God that I had a cottage somewhere farre from folke, that I might leaue my people and go from them, for they be all adulterers and a shrinking sort. ³ They bend their tongues like vowes to shoote out lyes, they waxe strong vppon earth: As for the trueth, they may nothing away withall in the worlde, for they go from one wickednes to another, and wyll not knowe me, saith the Lorde. ⁴ Yea, one must kepe hym selfe from another, no man may safely trust his owne brother: for one brother vndermindeth another, one neighbour beguileth another. ⁵ Yea, one dissembleth with another, and they deale with no trueth: They haue practised their tongues to lye, and taken great paynes to do mischiefe. ⁶ Thou sittest in the middes of a deceiptfull people, which for very dissembling falshood wyll not knowe me, saith the Lorde. ⁷ Therefore thus saith the Lorde of hoastes: Beholde, I wyll melt them and trye them: for what shoulde I els do to my people? ⁸ Their tongues are like sharpe arrowes to speake deceipt: with their mouth they speake peaceablie to their neighbour, but priuilie they lay wayte for hym. ⁹ Should I not punishe them for these thinges, saith the Lorde? or shoulde I not be auenged of any suche people as this? ¹⁰ Upon the mountaines wyl I take vp a lamentation and a sorowfull crye, and a mourning vpon the faire places of the wildernesse: Namely, howe they are so brent vp, that no man goeth there any more, yea a man shall not heare one beast crye there: byrdes and cattell are all gone from thence.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

O that, Heb. Who will give, etc. Jeremiah 4:19, Jeremiah 13:17, Jeremiah 14:17, Psalms 119:136, Isaiah 16:9, Isaiah 22:4, Lamentations 2:11, Lamentations 2:18, Lamentations 2:19, Lamentations 3:48, Lamentations 3:49, Ezekiel 21:6, Ezekiel 21:7

weep: Psalms 42:3

the daughter: Jeremiah 6:26, Jeremiah 8:21, Jeremiah 8:22

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 7:6 - drew water 1 Samuel 15:11 - it grieved 1 Samuel 15:35 - Samuel mourned 2 Samuel 1:12 - General 2 Samuel 11:14 - wrote a letter 2 Kings 8:11 - wept 2 Kings 22:19 - wept Ezra 10:1 - weeping Esther 8:6 - For how Isaiah 59:11 - mourn Jeremiah 4:11 - daughter Jeremiah 8:4 - Moreover Jeremiah 9:18 - our eyes Jeremiah 10:19 - Woe Jeremiah 17:16 - neither Jeremiah 23:9 - heart Jeremiah 30:15 - for the Jeremiah 45:3 - Woe Lamentations 1:2 - weepeth Lamentations 1:16 - I weep Ezekiel 6:11 - Smite Ezekiel 12:2 - thou Ezekiel 19:1 - take Ezekiel 24:16 - thy tears Daniel 10:2 - I Daniel Micah 1:8 - I will wail Matthew 18:31 - they Luke 6:21 - ye that weep Luke 19:41 - and wept John 11:35 - General Acts 20:19 - many Romans 9:2 - General Romans 12:15 - weep 1 Corinthians 13:6 - Rejoiceth not 2 Corinthians 12:21 - that I Philippians 3:18 - even 1 Thessalonians 2:9 - night 2 Peter 2:7 - vexed

Cross-References

Genesis 1:22
And God blessed them, saying: Be fruiteful, and multiplie, and fyll the waters of the sea, and let foule multiplie in the earth.

Genesis 2:3
And God blessed the seuenth daye, & sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his worke whiche God ordeyned to make.

Genesis 8:17
And bryng foorth with thee euery beast that is with thee, of all fleshe, both foule and cattell, and euery worme that crepeth vpon the earth, that they may breede in the earth, and bring foorth fruite, and multiplie vpon earth.

Genesis 9:3
Euery thyng that moueth it selfe, and that liueth, shall be meate for you, euen as the greene hearbe haue I geue you all thinges.

Genesis 9:4
But flesh in the life therof [which is] the blood therof, shall ye not eate.

Genesis 9:7
But be fruitefull, and multiplie you, breede in the earth, and increase therein.

Genesis 9:19
These are the three sonnes of Noah, & of them was the whole earth ouerspread.

Genesis 10:32
And so these are the kinredes of the chyldren of Noah after their generations in their peoples: and of these were the nations deuided in the earth after the flood.

Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebecca, and sayde vnto her: thou art our sister, growe into thousande thousandes, and thy seede possesse the gate of his enemies.

Psalms 112:1
Blessed is the man that feareth God: he hath great delight in his commaundementes.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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

A fountain - Rather, “a reservoir,” in which tears had been stored up, so that the prophet might weep abundantly.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER IX

The prophet bitterly laments the terrible judgments about to be

inflicted upon his countrymen, and points out some of the evils

which have provoked the Divine Majesty, 1-9.

Judea shall be utterly desolated, and the inhabitants

transplanted into heathen countries, 10-17.

In allusion to an ancient custom, a band of mourning women is

called to lament over the ruins of Jerusalem, 17, 18;

and even the funeral dirge is given in terms full of beauty,

elegance, and pathos, 19-22.

God is the fountain of all good; man, merely an instrument by

which a portion of this good is distributed in the earth;

therefore none should glory in his wisdom, might, or riches,

23, 24.

The judgments of God shall fall, not upon the land of Judea

only, but also upon many heathen nations, 25, 26.

NOTES ON CHAP. IX

Verse Jeremiah 9:1. O that my head were waters — מי יתן ראשי מים mi yitten roshi mayim, "who will give to my head waters?" My mourning for the sins and desolations of my people has already exhausted the source of tears: I wish to have a fountain opened there, that I may weep day and night for the slain of my people. This has been the sorrowful language of many a pastor who has preached long to a hardened, rebellious people, to little or no effect. This verse belongs to the preceding chapter.