Jeremiah 9:19

For a voice of lamentation has been heard in Sion, How are we become wretched! we are greatly ashamed, for we have forsaken the land, and have abandoned our tabernacles!

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

In Context

18and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.

20Hear now, you⌃ women, the word of God, and let your ears receive the words of his mouth, and teach your daughters lamentation, and every woman her neighbor a dirge.

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:28and lest the land be aggrieved with you in your polluting it, as it was aggrieved with the nations before you.

Deuteronomy 28:29And you shall grope at mid-day, as a blind man would grope in the darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways; and then you shall be unjustly treated, and plundered continually, and there shall be no helper.

Jeremiah 2:14Is Israel a servant, or a home-born slave? why has he become a spoil?

Jeremiah 4:20for all the land is distressed: suddenly my tabernacle is distressed, my curtains have been torn asunder.

Lamentations 4:15SAMECH. Depart you⌃ from the unclean ones: call you⌃ them: depart, depart, touch them not: for they are on fire, yes, they stagger: say you⌃ among the nations, They shall no more sojourn there.

Ezekiel 7:16But they that escape of them shall be delivered, and shall be upon the mountains: and I will kill all the rest, every one for his iniquities.

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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