Jeremiah 9:20

For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants without, and the young men from the streets.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.

In Context

19Hear now, ye 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.

21And the carcasses of the men shall be for an example on the face of the field of your land, like grass after the mower, and there shall be none to gather them.

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Cross References

Isaiah 3:4And I will make youths their princes, and mockers shall have dominion over them.

Isaiah 32:9Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice; ye confident daughters, hearken to my words.

Jeremiah 7:29Cut off thy hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on thy lips; for the Lord has reprobated and rejected the generation that does these things.

Jeremiah 9:17and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.

Lamentations 2:19Arise, rejoice in the night 1 At the beginning of thy watch: 1 Pour out thy heart as water 1 Before the face of the Lord: 1 Lift up thy hands to him 1 For the life of thine infants, 1 Who faint for hunger 1 At the top of all the streets. 1

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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