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Jeremiah 9:17-22
1599 Geneva Bible
Jeremiah 9:17-22
1599 Geneva Bible
17 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Take heed, and call for [a]the mourning women, that they may come, and send for skillful women, that they may come,
18 And let them make haste, and let them take up a lamentation for us, that our eyes may cast out tears, and our eyelids gush out of water.
19 For a lamentable noise is heard out of Zion, How are we destroyed, and utterly confounded, for we have forsaken the land, and our dwellings [b]have cast us out.
20 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ears regard the words of his mouth, and [c]teach your daughters to mourn, and everyone her neighbor to lament.
21 For death is come up into our [d]windows, and is entered into our palaces, to destroy the children without, and the young men in the streets.
22 Speak, Thus saith the Lord, The carcasses of men shall lie, even as the dung upon the field, and as the handful after the mower, and none shall gather them.
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- Jeremiah 9:17 Seeing you cannot lament your own sins, call for those foolish women, whom of a superstition you have to lament for the dead, that they by their feigned tears may provoke you to some sorrow.
- Jeremiah 9:19 As though they were weary of us, because of our iniquities, Lev. 18:28 and 20:22.
- Jeremiah 9:20 He derideth the superstition of the women which made an art of mourning, and taught to weep with feigned tears.
- Jeremiah 9:21 Signifying, that there is no means to deliver the wicked from God’s judgments: but when they think to be most sure, and most far off, then they are soonest taken.
Jeremiah 9:17-22
New International Version
Jeremiah 9:17-22
New International Version
17 This is what the Lord Almighty says:
“Consider now! Call for the wailing women(A) to come;
send for the most skillful of them.
18 Let them come quickly
and wail over us
till our eyes overflow with tears
and water streams from our eyelids.(B)
19 The sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
‘How ruined(C) we are!
How great is our shame!
We must leave our land
because our houses are in ruins.’”
20 Now, you women, hear the word of the Lord;
open your ears to the words of his mouth.(D)
Teach your daughters how to wail;
teach one another a lament.(E)
21 Death has climbed in through our windows(F)
and has entered our fortresses;
it has removed the children from the streets
and the young men(G) from the public squares.
22 Say, “This is what the Lord declares:
“‘Dead bodies will lie
like dung(H) on the open field,
like cut grain behind the reaper,
with no one to gather them.’”
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