Grief over Judah’s Devastation

19 (A)My [a]soul, my [b]soul! I am in anguish! [c]Oh, my heart!
My (B)heart is pounding in me;
I cannot keep silent,
Because, [d]my soul, you have heard
The (C)sound of the trumpet,
The alarm of war.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 4:19 Lit inward parts
  2. Jeremiah 4:19 Lit inward parts
  3. Jeremiah 4:19 Lit The walls of my heart
  4. Jeremiah 4:19 Another reading is I have heard

Grief over Zion

[a](A)Oh, that my head were waters
And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night
For those slain of the (B)daughter of my people!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:1 Ch 8:23 in Heb

17 You will say this word to them,
(A)Let my eyes stream down tears night and day,
And let them not cease;
For the virgin (B)daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow,
With a sorely (C)infected wound.

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