Jeremiah 9:1 meaning and explanation
Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
Jeremiah 9:1, Berean Standard Bible
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Jeremiah speaks these words as God's prophet in the last years before Jerusalem fell to Babylon in 586 BC. The verse opens a lament over the coming destruction, and the "daughter of my people" is a Hebrew idiom for Jerusalem and its people, not a single woman.
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