Verse 20

Jeremiah 9:20

Young's Literal Translation

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20 But hear, ye women, a word of Jehovah, And your ear receiveth a word of His mouth, And teach ye your daughters wailing, and each her neighbour lamentation.

Original Language Text

hebrew

כִּֽי עָ֤לָה מָ֨וֶת֙ בְּ/חַלּוֹנֵ֔י/נוּ בָּ֖א בְּ/אַרְמְנוֹתֵ֑י/נוּ לְ/הַכְרִ֤ית עוֹלָל֙ מִ/ח֔וּץ בַּחוּרִ֖ים מֵ/רְחֹבֽוֹת

English Translation

For death has risen in our windows, has come into our palaces to cut off the infants from outside, from the streets.

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Chapter 9 Context

1 Who doth make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For... Focus ↗

2 Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from t... Focus ↗

3 And they bend their tongue, their bow [is] a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in... Focus ↗

4 Each of his friend -- beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly su... Focus ↗

5 And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak fal... Focus ↗

6 thy dwelling [is] in the midst of deceit, Through deceit they refused to know Me, An affirmation of... Focus ↗

7 Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am refining them, and have tried them, For how do I do... Focus ↗

8 A slaughtering arrow [is] their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour... Focus ↗

9 For these things do not I see after them? An affirmation of Jehovah, Against a nation such as this d... Focus ↗

10 For the mountains I lift up weeping and wailing, And for the habitations of the wilderness a lamenta... Focus ↗

11 And I make Jerusalem become heaps, A habitation of dragons, And the cities of Judah I make a desolat... Focus ↗

12 Who [is] the wise man? and he understandeth this, And he to whom the mouth of Jehovah spake? And he... Focus ↗

13 And Jehovah saith: Because of their forsaking My law that I set before them, And they have not heark... Focus ↗

14 And they walk after the stubbornness of their heart, And after the Baalim, that their fathers taught... Focus ↗

15 Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God (Elohim) of Israel: Lo, I am causing them -- this people... Focus ↗

16 And I have scattered them among nations Which they knew not, they and their fathers, And have sent a... Focus ↗

17 Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Consider ye, and call for mourning women, And they come, And to the wise... Focus ↗

18 And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids... Focus ↗

19 For -- a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: How have we been spoiled! We have been greatly ashamed... Focus ↗

20 But hear, ye women, a word of Jehovah, And your ear receiveth a word of His mouth, And teach ye your...

21 For death hath come up into our windows, It hath come into our palaces, To cut off the suckling from... Focus ↗

22 Speak thus -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And fallen hath the carcase of man, As dung on the face of... Focus ↗

23 Thus said Jehovah: Let not the wise boast himself in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty boast himself in... Focus ↗

24 But -- in this let the boaster boast himself, In understanding and knowing Me, For I [am] Jehovah, d... Focus ↗

25 Lo, days are coming -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have laid a charge on all circumcised in the... Focus ↗

26 On Egypt, and on Judah, and on Edom, And on the sons of Ammon, and on Moab, And on all cutting the c... Focus ↗

Verse Information

Book: Jeremiah
Chapter: Chapter 9 (26 verses)
Version: Young's Literal Translation

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