 | George Bull - 1827 - 514 sider
...suffered little less in the prophecy, than they should in the event of it. He begins, verse 1, thus : O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people! As if he had said, I think I can never grieve sufficiently for the dismal slaughter and destruction... | |
 | George Bull - 1827 - 518 sider
...suffered little less in the prophecy, than they should in the event of it. He begins, verse 1, thus : O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...and night for the slain of the daughter of my people ! As if he had said, I think I can never grieve sufficiently for the dismal slaughter and destruction... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 688 sider
...keep not thy law. JER. ix. 1: 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. do. xiii. 17: But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine... | |
 | Plain Truth - 1827 - 66 sider
...in the house of her friends; "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 v of my people." Well I may seek to exhort those, whose calling it is to exhort their fellow sinners,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 268 sider
...such as surprise, admiration, joy, grief, and the like. " Wo is me that 1 sojourn in Mesecn, thai 1 dwell in the tents of Kedar !" Psalms. " O that my...people ! O that 1 had in the wilderness a lodging-place ot wayfaring men 1" Jeremiah. IRONY. Irony is expressing ourselves in a manner contrary to our thought^... | |
 | Joseph Hervey Hull - 1828 - 84 sider
...expresses samp strong emotion of the mind, and is generally followed by a note of admiration ; as, " O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...for the slain of the daughter of my people ! O that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men !" Rhetorical disposition or arrangement,... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - 1828 - 426 sider
...strongest emotions of the mind; and is produced by sudden joy, surprise, admiration, grief, &c. As: — O that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people! NOTE. When this figure is judiciously employed, it produces a very sensible effect. It imparts, through... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 sider
...them, but they have refused to receive correction, &c. They refused to return. — Jer. v. 3. ii. 30. O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night, for the slain of the daughter of my people. — Jer. ix. 1. My soul shall weep in secret places for your pride : and mine eye shall weep sore,... | |
 | American Temperance Society - 1828 - 742 sider
...indignation of the father of the fatherless, and the judge of the widows, they are ready to say, " O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughters of my people." Nor is their grief assuaged, or their righteous indignation abated, by the... | |
 | 1828 - 678 sider
...phalanx, tovRffe 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.' " pp. 206 — 209. We only add that, through this whole volume, there is the same luminous perception... | |
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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! 
