Jeremiah 9:17

Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that are wise women, and let them make haste:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:

In Context

16And I will scatter them among the nations, which they and their fathers have not known: and I will send the sword after them till they be consumed.

18Let them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 35:25Particularly Jeremias: whose lamentations for Josias all the singing men and singing women repeat unto this day, and it became like a law in Israel: Behold it is found written in the Lamentations.

Ecclesiastes 12:5And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street.

Matthew 9:23And when Jesus was come into the house of the ruler, and saw the minstrels and the multitude making a rout,

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 9:13-23

Punishment Predicted. ( b. c. 606.) 12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through? 13 And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; 14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: 15 Therefore… Read the whole commentary →

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