Verse 18
Jeremiah 9:18
World English Bible
18
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.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּ֣י ק֥וֹל נְהִ֛י נִשְׁמַ֥ע מִ/צִּיּ֖וֹן אֵ֣יךְ שֻׁדָּ֑דְנוּ בֹּ֤שְׁנֽוּ מְאֹד֙ כִּֽי עָזַ֣בְנוּ אָ֔רֶץ כִּ֥י הִשְׁלִ֖יכוּ מִשְׁכְּנוֹתֵֽי/נוּ
English Translation
For a voice of lamentation is heard from Zion: "How are we greatly ashamed, for we have forsaken the land, because they have thrown out our dwellings."
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Chapter 9 Context
1
Oh that my head were waters,
and my eyes a spring of tears,
that I might weep day and night
for the...
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2
Oh that I had in the wilderness
a lodging place of wayfaring men;
that I might leave my people,
and...
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3
“They bend their tongue,
as their bow, for falsehood.
They have grown strong in the land,
but not fo...
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4
“Everyone beware of his neighbor,
and don’t trust in any brother;
for every brother will utterly sup...
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5
Everyone will deceive their neighbors,
and will not speak the truth.
They have taught their tongue t...
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6
Your habitation is in the middle of deceit.
Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.
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7
Therefore Yahweh of Armies says,
“Behold, I will melt them and test them;
for how should I deal with...
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8
Their tongue is a deadly arrow.
It speaks deceit.
One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mout...
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9
Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh.
“Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation su...
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10
I will weep and wail for the mountains,
and lament for the pastures of the wilderness,
because they...
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11
“I will make Jerusalem heaps,
a dwelling place of jackals.
I will make the cities of Judah a desolat...
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12
Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may...
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13
Yahweh says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voic...
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14
but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers...
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15
Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God (Elohim) of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this p...
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16
I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I wi...
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17
Yahweh of Armies says,
“Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come;
and send for...
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18
Let them make haste,
and take up a wailing for us,
that our eyes may run down with tears,
and our ey...
19
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion,
‘How we are ruined!
We are greatly confounded,
because...
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20
Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women.
Let your ear receive the word of his mouth.
Teach your daughters...
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21
For death has come up into our windows.
It has entered into our palaces
to cut off the children from...
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22
Speak, “Yahweh says,
“‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field,
and as the handfu...
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23
Yahweh says,
“Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom.
Don’t let the mighty man glory in his migh...
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24
But let him who glories glory in this,
that he has understanding, and knows me,
that I am Yahweh who...
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25
“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in thei...
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26
Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off,...
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