Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 9:1

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.

Heb. who will give, &c. by way of enquiry, because the Hebrews do want the Imperative mood; the Prophet in this chapter principally bewailing his poor Country-mens Calamity, whom he therefore [illegible: 1 word] the daughter of his people, he expresseth the greatness and excess of his Sorrows by wishing that his brains were as it were dissolved into water, for the word is singular, as if he wished it were all one water, signifying plenty, and that his eyes might distil tears like a fountain, the same word in the Heb. for eye signifies a fountain; noting the continuance of it, not to be drawn dry, expressed by day and night, apprehending it a misery so great, as never sufficiently to be bewailed, see Luk. 19.41.

Or that are to be slain, viz. by the Babylonians a prophetical stile, as sure to be slain, as if they were slain already.

Marginal references: Heb. who will give my head, &c.; Isa. 22.4. chap. 4.19. & 14.17.