 | James Hervey - 1767 - 464 pages
...Heavinefs, and continual Sor" row." For this, He made the Prophet's pathetic Complaint his own ; Oh ! that my Head were Waters-, and my Eyes a Fountain of Tears, that I might bewail, Day and Night *, the incorrigible Perverfenefs of my People ! For my People have... | |
 | John Collier (of High Wycombe.) - 1791 - 566 pages
...awfully denounced on his Country, at length alFeftiojiately breaks out in the ninth. Chapter. " .Q that my head were waters, and " my eyes a fountain of tears, that 1 might .*' weep day and night-r-Oh ! that I had in the *' Wildernefs a lodging place for way-faring... | |
 | John Willison - 1799 - 576 pages
...Lamb of God \ How can we fay, we love God that loved us firft, when we hug his enemy in our bofom ! " O that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears," that I might weep and mouin day and night for the -ungrateful requitals of the fons of men, for the... | |
 | Francis Quarles - 1807 - 410 pages
...this death 2* represents a man sitting in a melancholy posture in a large skeleton. Another, on « O that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears,' &c. exhibits a human figure, with several spouts gushing from it, like the spouts of a fountain. This... | |
 | 1841 - 606 pages
...water run down my eyes, because men keep not thy law." They cried out, in their spiritual exercises, " 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." Prevailing ungodliness... | |
 | 1847 - 760 pages
...our God in the great day of the Lord — (cutting thought) — I could say with the prophet, ' Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears,' if it would save them : I would weep and wrettle day and night for their salvation ; but the 1 Lord's... | |
 | Jonathan Morgan - 1814 - 298 pages
...surprise, sorrow, &ci " Woe is me, that I sojourn, in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar !" " 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 daughters -of my people 1 Qh, that I had, in... | |
 | 1820 - 598 pages
...fold his hands and sit still? If his heart be almost ready to break with anguish, he may exclaim, "Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears." He may be so far absorbed with his own sensibilities, and so much enfeebled by their indulgence, that... | |
 | Pious country parishioner - 1819 - 266 pages
...For this, O merciful God, do I grieve and mourn, and am still grieved, because I can grieve no more. O that my Head were Waters, and my Eyes a Fountain of Tears, that 1 might weep bitterly for my Transgressions ! O Lord, soften by thy Grace, and break ihis hard... | |
 | Andrew Reed - 1820 - 366 pages
...what a sinner am I! — As perverse as Cain — as treacherous as Judas — as profane as £sau — as apostatizing as Peter — as worldly as Demas —...my transgressions ! " How wonderful are the ways of God ! It was when I had put myself beyond the entreaties of friends and the ordinary means of grace;... | |
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О 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! 
