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Jeremiah 9:20

Grief

18 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.

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.

21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.

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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.

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BSB
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.
KJV
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.
WEB
Yet hear the LORD’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.
ASV
Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
DARBY
Hear then the word of Jehovah, ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and each one her companion lamentation.
BLB
Now hear, O women, the word of YHWH, and let your⁺ ear receive the word of His mouth! And teach your⁺ daughters a lamentation, and each woman her neighbor a dirge!
ÅB
Ja, hør, dere kvinner, Herrens ord, la deres øre fornemme hans munns tale, og lær deres døtre klagesang, og den ene lære den andre sørgesang!
OTB
Nå, dere kvinner, hør Herrens ord; åpne deres ører for ordene fra hans munn. Lær deres døtre å klage; lær hverandre en klagesang.
B1930
Ja, hør, I kvinner, Herrens ord, la eders øre fornemme hans munns tale, og lær eders døtre klagesang, og den ene lære den andre sørgesang!

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Luke 23:27–30

    And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.

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  • Isaiah 32:9–13

    Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

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  • Job 22:22

    Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

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  • Isaiah 3:16

    Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

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  • Jeremiah 9:17–18

    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:

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  • Isaiah 3:4

    And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

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