| 1830 - 1016 Seiten
...she reminded me (I hope it is not spoken irreverently) of that beautiful exclamation in Holy Writ—" Oh ! that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night!" To use an old simile, she looked like a lily bent beneath a thunder-shower.... | |
| 1831 - 982 Seiten
...it turn for a testimony—a testimony to thy truth, a testimony to their falsehood and hypocrisy. " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the children of the daughter of my people! " Having thus opened at large the endowment of the church, the... | |
| Eleazar Lord - 1831 - 224 Seiten
...incensed Judge upon the great white throne to be the Jesus whom I have preached and you rejected ! " 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." I turn from these saddening reflections to drop a few lines to... | |
| J. Sidlow Baxter, James Sidlow Baxter - 1986 - 1848 Seiten
...says: "We have read this prophecy very carelessly if we have simply seen in it the sorrows of a man, '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!' Can we find anything to match that? We have already done so. We... | |
| Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 532 Seiten
...He was intensely emotional? Tears and weeping are common to Jeremiah's prophecy. He could exclaim, "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!" (9:1, 15). Again, he cried, "Let our . . . eyes run down with... | |
| 1988 - 508 Seiten
...6. Spoke in the Church in High Street, Brooklyn, from Jer. ix, 1 — :'0h 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." In these days I felt it my duty to travel up and down in the world,... | |
| Howard Brotz - 2011 - 641 Seiten
...the agony and anxiety of the moment, as though we could cry our in the language of a Prophet of old: "Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the" degradation "of my people! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I... | |
| Martin Robison Delany - 1993 - 228 Seiten
...agony and anxiety of the moment, as though we could cry out in the language of a Prophet of old : " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the" degradation " of my people ! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of way-faring men ; that... | |
| Dorothy Sterling - 1991 - 490 Seiten
...sleep. "In agony of prayer and tears, my cry was that of the prophet: 'O, that mine 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!' " she said. Although she later wrote that her anguish was not... | |
| William Graham Scroggie - 1994 - 1460 Seiten
...man who in obedience to his commission pronounces the doom of his people (xxiv. 9, 10), who cries, '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 daughters of my people' (ix. i). In all this, as in many other respects, he is a true... | |
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