Jeremiah 9:18

Grief

¹⁶ I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

¹⁷ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:

And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

¹⁹ For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

²⁰ Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.
KJV: And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
WEB: Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.
ASV: and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
DARBY: and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids pour forth waters.
BLB: And let them hurry and take up for us a lament, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids flow with water.

ÅB: og skynde seg og oppløfte en klagesang over oss, så våre øyne kan rinne med gråt og våre øyelokk flyte med vann!
OTB: La dem komme raskt og ta opp en klagesang for oss, så våre øyne kan felle tårer og våre øyelokk strømme med vann.
B1930: og skynde sig og opløfte en klagesang over oss, så våre øine kan rinne med gråt og våre øielokk flyte med vann!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Jeremiah 9:1
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!
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Isaiah 22:4
Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
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Jeremiah 14:17
Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
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Jeremiah 9:20
Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
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Lamentations 2:11
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
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Lamentations 2:18
Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
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Lamentations 1:2
She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
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Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
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