 | James Meikle - Devotional literature - 1811 - 424 pages
...this man reign over us ? We will not have him for our king, we will not take him for our aaviour." Oh ! that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the sins of my fellow-creatures, for the slain of my fellow-sinners ! Let sorrow seize on my heart, and... | |
 | Missions - 1848 - 752 pages
...broken up, and floods of godly sorrow overwhelm our souls. We should say, with the prophet Jeremiah, " Oh, that my head were waters, and mine еуез a...of tears, that I might weep day and night" for the sin of our nature, the transgressions of our lives, the rebellion of our world, and for what they have... | |
 | 1814 - 804 pages
...eyes, because men keep not thy law.' How enviable, how precious, such soul-relieving compassion. ' 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 !' "These things assuredly are for a lamentation. WHAT SHALL BE... | |
 | George Wilkins - Jerusalem - 1816 - 264 pages
...than that, in which he bewailed these, or such as these, so many years before their occurrence. — " 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. i\. 1. See the whole chapter. (2) Bell. Jud. 6, vii.... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 412 pages
...fall among them that fall ; in the lime of their visitation they shall be cast down from the LORD. 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... | |
 | Robert Balfour - Sermons, English - 1819 - 228 pages
...When Jeremiah thought on the guilt and miseries of Israel, he exclaimed with bitter lamentation. " 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 daugh" ter of my people!" and shall we be unmoved by the wickedness and woes of Pagan... | |
 | Lyman Beecher, Samuel Worcester, Brown Emerson - Installation sermons - 1819 - 54 pages
...by it : while the enemy, laughing at our credulity, moves on in firm phalanx, to divide and conquer. 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. 7. Churches of different denominations, who regard each other as... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1844 - 638 pages
...waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law." And again, in Jeremiah ix. 1, he exclaims, "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." Hear what Isaiah says, (liii. 3.) "That he was a man of sorrows,... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1820 - 660 pages
...the above-mentioned subject, I should have exclaimed with the prophet (poet) of ancient Judah— " Oh that my head were waters ! •and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of my people!" What think you, Sir, of those people who were slain at Manchester, innocent and... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1836 - 514 pages
...silence here that is terrible. We have felt a peculiar sympathy to-day with Jeremiah, when he exclaimed, "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!" It has been a sweet relief to our burdened souls to weep in secret... | |
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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... 
