 | La Roy Sunderland - 1836 - 194 pages
...to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever. Jer. vii. 5. 4. Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...the slain of the daughter of my people. Oh that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.... | |
 | Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser - 1836 - 636 pages
...those that regard the glory of God do groan under them also, and cry with the prophet, Jcr. ix. 1, 2: "Oh, that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...for the slain of the daughter of my people. Oh, that 1 had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from... | |
 | Daniel Atkinson Clark - 1836 - 342 pages
...redound to God ? Who can view the subject in this light and not feel pained that souls must perish ? " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people." Oh, the cursed tragedy of the fall, which placed noble spirits where they are utterly lost For they can... | |
 | 1836 - 506 pages
...world. When you see the ungodliness of those around you, show the spirit of Jeremiah, and exclaim, — " Oh, that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people."* And when you survey the vast and wretched portion of the family of man, who are sunk in gross idolatry,... | |
 | 1836 - 454 pages
...physician there ? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people restored ? CHAPTER IX. 1 OH that my head were waters, And mine eyes a fountain...and night For the slain of the daughter of my people ! Verse 22. /* there no balm in Gilead ? — " Balm," or " balsam," is used with us as a common name... | |
 | Ammi Rogers - 1836 - 276 pages
...friend ! Oh, how I lament, how I deplore and bemoan their sin, their ingratitude, their baseness! — "Oh, that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people." For courts ol law to err is not uncommon; but the injustice of which I here complain, is neither common... | |
 | Church of England preacher - 1837 - 632 pages
...soul with lamentation, and mourning, and woe. " For the hurt of the daughter of my people," said he, " am I hurt ; I am black ; astonishment hath taken hold...of my people ! Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them ! for they be all adulterers,... | |
 | George Knight - 1837 - 64 pages
...pondering on these things, I have been reminded of, and could adopt, the lamentation of Jeremiah, " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...might leave my people, and go from them :"* for " they have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. "f Oh,... | |
 | 1837 - 328 pages
...there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? IT 9: 1. Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...daughter of my people! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them ! for they be all adulterers,... | |
 | Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey - 1837 - 422 pages
...solemnity, my heart is grieved within me, and I am compelled to exclaim with the prophet, Jer. 9 : 1-3. " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...and night for the slain of the daughter of my people ; for they bend their tongues like their bows for lies ; but they are not valiant for the truth upon... | |
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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... 
