 | Edward Edmunds - 1850 - 162 pages
...continual heaviness of soul. The language of the prophet seemed literally true in his case, when he says, ' O 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 1 had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men,... | |
 | F. B - 1850 - 124 pages
...sorrow, which is done unto Me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted Me in the day of His fierce anger." " O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears," that I might weep day and night for the sufferings of my Saviour. Shall I not weep for Him. Who both wept and bled for me, yea, wept out every... | |
 | James Gallaher - 1850 - 420 pages
...much, has been lost irrecoverably by the neglect of this momentous work during the last thirty years. " O 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 ! " Those, only, who have traversed the mighty west in its length... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1851 - 416 pages
...that a few were found, who, while justifying the fierce anger of the Most High God, could yet say, " O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the daughter of my people ! " CHAPTER I. THE REVOLT. AD 66. Now were fast drawing on those " days of vengeance,"... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1851 - 324 pages
...may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.— Jeremiah, xiii. 23. FIGURE XI. ECPHONESIS. O 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 ! O that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of way -faring... | |
 | Daniel Parish Kidder - 1851 - 220 pages
...is full of sorrow over the sips of his people. Q. How does he express his grief on this account ? A. O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slam of the daughter of my people ! Jer. ix, 1. Q. Of what does he prophesy? « A. Of the ruin of the... | |
 | American Temperance Union - 1852 - 534 pages
...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...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughters of my people." Nor is their grief assuaged, or their righteous indigna"tion... | |
 | Thomas Hewlings Stockton - 1854 - 442 pages
...them. " O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end ! " "O 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 ! " And now, in conclusion, having thus noticed the certainty and... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 322 pages
...for our own sins, but for the sins of others. Jeremiah, when he looked around him, said (9 : 1), " O, 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 ; " and David said (Psa. 119 : 136), " Kivers of water run down... | |
 | Wesleyan pulpit - 1855 - 652 pages
...Jeremiah has been called the weeping prophet, in reference principally to his well-known exclamation, " O 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 !" (chap. ix. 1.) We must not, however, refer this and similar expressions,... | |
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O 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... 
