9 ^{[a] (A)}Oh that my head were waters,
    and my eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night
    for the slain of ^(B)the daughter of my people!

¹⁸ let them make haste ^(A)and raise a wailing over us,
    ^(B)that our eyes may run down with tears
    and our eyelids flow with water.

¹⁷ “You shall say to them this word:
^(A)‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
    and let them not cease,
for the virgin ^(B)daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound,
    ^(C)with a very grievous blow.

^48 (A)my eyes flow with rivers of tears
    because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.