Jeremiah 9:17-22
Legacy Standard Bible
17 Thus says Yahweh of hosts,
“Carefully consider and call for the (A)mourning women, that they may come;
And send for the [a](B)skillful women, that they may come!
18 Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us,
That our (C)eyes may shed tears
And our eyelids flow with water.
19 For a voice of (D)wailing is heard from Zion,
‘(E)How we are destroyed!
We are put to great shame,
For we have (F)left the land
Because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
20 Indeed, hear the word of Yahweh, O you (G)women,
And let your ear receive the word of His mouth;
Teach your daughters wailing,
And everyone her neighbor a funeral lamentation.
21 For (H)death has come up through our windows;
It has entered our palaces
To cut off the (I)infants from the streets,
The choice men from the open squares.
22 Speak, “Thus declares Yahweh,
‘The corpses of men will fall (J)like dung on the open field
And like the sheaf after the reaper,
But no one will gather them.’”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:17 Lit wise
Jeremiah 9:17-22
English Standard Version
17 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
(A)“Consider, and call for the mourning women to come;
send for the skillful women to come;
18 let them make haste (B)and raise a wailing over us,
(C)that our eyes may run down with tears
and our eyelids flow with water.
19 For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
(D)‘How we are ruined!
We are utterly shamed,
because we have left the land,
because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
20 Hear, O women, the word of the Lord,
and let your ear receive the word of his mouth;
teach to your daughters a lament,
and each to her neighbor a dirge.
21 For death has come up into our windows;
it has entered our palaces,
(E)cutting off the children from the streets
and the young men from the squares.
22 Speak: “Thus declares the Lord,
(F)‘The dead bodies of men shall fall
like dung upon the open field,
(G)like sheaves after the reaper,
and none shall gather them.’”
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