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Jeremiah 9:18

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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.

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Jeremiah 9:18 in other translations

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.

Jeremiah 9:18 · World English Bible

Jeremiah 9:18 in context

  1. 16I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.
  2. 17Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilful women, that they may come:
  3. 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.
  4. 19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.
  5. 20Yet 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.