Jeremiah 9:18-20

New American Standard Bible

¹⁸Have them hurry and take up a wailing for us,
So that our ^(A)eyes may shed tears,
And our eyelids flow with water.
¹⁹For a voice of ^(B)wailing is heard from Zion:
‘^(C)How devastated we are!
We are put to great shame,
For we have ^(D)abandoned the land
Because they have torn down our homes.’”
²⁰Now hear the word of the Lord, you ^(E)women,
And let your ears receive the word of His mouth;
Teach your daughters wailing,
And have every woman teach her neighbor a song of mourning.

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Jeremiah 9:18-20

New International Version

¹⁸Let them come quickly
    and wail over us
till our eyes overflow with tears
    and water streams from our eyelids.^(A)
¹⁹The sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
    ‘How ruined^(B) we are!
    How great is our shame!
We must leave our land
    because our houses are in ruins.’”

²⁰Now, you women, hear the word of the Lord;
open your ears to the words of his mouth.^(C)
Teach your daughters how to wail;
teach one another a lament.^(D)

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Jeremiah 9:18-20

King James Version

¹⁸And 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.

¹⁹For 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.

²⁰Yet 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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