Jeremiah 9:1
Context| NETBible | (8:23) 1 I wish that my head were a well full of water 2 and my eyes were a fountain full of tears! If they were, I could cry day and night for those of my dear people 3 who have been killed. |
| XREF | Ps 42:3; Ps 119:136; Isa 16:9; Isa 22:4; Jer 4:19; Jer 6:26; Jer 8:21,22; Jer 13:17; Jer 14:17; La 2:11,18,19; La 3:48,49; Eze 21:6,7 |
| NET © Notes |
1 sn Beginning with 9:1, the verse numbers through 9:26 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 9:1 ET = 8:23 HT, 9:2 ET = 9:1 HT, 9:3 ET = 9:2 HT, etc., through 9:26 ET = 9:25 HT. Beginning with 10:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same. 2 tn Heb “I wish that my head were water.” 3 tn Heb “daughter of my people.” For the translation given here see 4:11 and the note on the phrase “dear people” there. |
