Verse Comparison: Jeremiah 9:1
American Standard Version
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!
Amplified® Bible
OH, THAT my head were waters and my eyes a reservoir of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Contemporary English Version
I wish that my eyes were fountains of tears, so I could cry day and night for my people who were killed.
Darby English Version
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eye a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Good News Bible
I wish my head were a well of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I could cry day and night for my people who have been killed.
King James Version
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!
New American Standard Bible
Oh that my head were waters And my eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For the slain of the daughter of my people!
New International Version
Oh, that my head were a spring of water
and my eyes a fountain of tears!
I would weep day and night
for the slain of my people.
New King James Version
Oh, that my head were waters,
And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night
For the slain of the daughter of my people!
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Oh that my head consisted of waters And my eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For the slain of the daughter of my people!
Revised Standard Version
O that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Young's Literal Translation
Who doth make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people.