Why was Jeremiah called the "weeping prophet" I would like to know why Jeremiah is called the "weeping prophet"

I have looked in Scripture, but I cannot find the answer.
The extent to which Jeremiah is known as the 'weeping prophet' is so entrenched that there is even an Englsh word - jeremiad ("a sad lamentation") - that enshrines the concept.

Jeremiah's weeping traditionally comes from his authorship of the book of Lamentations (his other book!), which is a jeremiad (if you'll pardon the pun), mourning the capture and destruction of Jerusalem in 587BC.  If you read Lamentations, you will hear Jeremiah's anguish, and yes, tears, in his works.