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Jeremiah 9:19

World English Bible

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion,
‘How we are ruined!
We are greatly confounded
because we have forsaken the land,
because they have cast down our dwellings.’ ”

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Jeremiah 9:19 in other translations

For 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.

Jeremiah 9:19 · American Standard Version

Jeremiah 9:19 in context

  1. 17Yahweh of Armies says,
    “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come.
    Send for the skillful women, that they may come.
  2. 18Let 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.
  3. 19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion,
    ‘How we are ruined!
    We are greatly confounded
    because we have forsaken the land,
    because they have cast down our dwellings.’ ”
  4. 20Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women.
    Let your ear receive the word of his mouth.
    Teach your daughters wailing.
    Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.
  5. 21For death has come up into our windows.
    It has entered into our palaces
    to cut off the children from outside,
    and the young men from the streets.