Jeremiah 9:17-22
International Standard Version
A Call to Lament
17 This is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies says:
“Think about what I’m saying![a]
Indeed, call out the professional mourners![b]
Send for the best of them to come.
18 Let them hurry and lament for us.
Let tears run down from our eyes,
and let our eyelids flow with water.
19 For a sound of mourning is heard from Zion:
‘How we’re ruined!
Our shame is very great,
because we have left the land,
because our houses are torn down.’”
20 “Now, you women, hear the message from the Lord;
listen to what he has to say!
Teach your daughters how to mourn,
let every woman teach[c] her friend how to lament.
21 For death comes up through our windows;
it has come into our palaces
to eliminate children from the streets
and young men from the town squares.
22 Speak! ‘This is what the Lord says:
“The corpses of people will fall like dung
on the surface of the field,
and like a row of cut grain behind
the harvester when there is no one to gather it.”’”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:17 The Heb. lacks about what I’m saying
- Jeremiah 9:17 Lit. lamenting women
- Jeremiah 9:20 The Heb. lacks teach
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