Jeremiah 9:19
17 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.
18 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.
For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”
20 Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.
21 For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.
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
- For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
- ASV
- For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.
- DARBY
- For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled, sorely put to shame! For we have forsaken the land, for they have cast down our dwellings.
- BLB
- For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! We are exceedingly ashamed, because we have left behind the land, because they have thrown down our dwellings!’”
- ÅB
- For en klagerøst høres fra Sion: Hvor vi er ødelagt! Vi er blitt storlig vanæret; vi har måttet forlate landet fordi de har brutt ned våre boliger.
- OTB
- Lyden av klage høres fra Sion: 'Hvor ødelagt vi er! Hvor stor er vår skam! Vi må forlate vårt land fordi de har revet ned våre hjem.'
- B1930
- For en klagerøst høres fra Sion: Hvor vi er ødelagt! Vi er blitt storlig vanæret; vi har måttet forlate landet fordi de har brutt ned våre boliger.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 4:13
Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!
Read in contextEzekiel 7:16–18
The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:29
and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
Read in contextMicah 1:8–9
Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.
Read in contextLamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
Read in contextMicah 2:4
In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”
Read in contextLeviticus 20:22
You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.
Read in contextMicah 2:10
Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction— a grievous destruction!
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