Jeremiah 9:20

Hear 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.

LXX2012 (US English)

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

19For 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!

21For 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.

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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, you⌃ rich women, and hear my voice; + 32:9 Gr. daughters in hope you⌃ confident daughters, listen to my words.

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

Jeremiah 9:17Thus says the Lord, Call you⌃ the mourning women, and let them come; and send to the wise women, and let them utter their voice;

Lamentations 2:19KOPH. Arise, rejoice in the night at the beginning of your watch: pour out your heart as water before the face of the Lord; lift up your hands to him for the life of your infants, who faint for hunger at the top of all the streets.

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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