Jeremiah 9:17

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This is what the Lord of armies has said: Take thought and send for the weeping women, so that they may come; and send for the wise women, so that they may come:

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  • Eccl 12:5 : 5 And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;
  • 2 Chr 35:25 : 25 And Jeremiah made a song of grief for Josiah; and to this day Josiah is named by all the makers of melody, men and women, in their songs of grief; they made it a rule in Israel; and the songs are recorded among the songs of grief.
  • Job 3:8 : 8 Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.
  • Amos 5:16-17 : 16 So these are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the Lord: There will be weeping in all the open spaces; and in all the streets they will say, Sorrow! sorrow! and they will get in the farmer to the weeping, and the makers of sad songs to give cries of grief. 17 In all the vine-gardens there will be cries of grief: for I will go through among you, says the Lord.
  • Matt 9:23 : 23 And when Jesus came into the ruler's house and saw the players with their instruments and the people making a noise,
  • Mark 5:38 : 38 And they came to the house of the ruler of the Synagogue; and he saw people running this way and that, and weeping and crying loudly.

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  • Jer 9:18-21
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    82%

    18 Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.

    19 For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.

    20 But even now, give ear to the word of the Lord, O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief.

    21 For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.

  • Amos 5:16
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    16 So these are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the Lord: There will be weeping in all the open spaces; and in all the streets they will say, Sorrow! sorrow! and they will get in the farmer to the weeping, and the makers of sad songs to give cries of grief.

  • Isa 22:12
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    12 And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:

  • Joel 1:8-9
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    8 Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.

    9 The meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's servants, are sorrowing.

  • Jer 9:16
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    16 And I will send them wandering among the nations, among people strange to them and to their fathers: and I will send the sword after them till I have put an end to them.

  • Zech 7:3-4
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    3 And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?

    4 Then the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying

  • Mic 2:9
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    9 The women of my people you have been driving away from their dearly loved children; from their young ones you are taking my glory for ever.

  • Hag 1:7
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    7 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.

  • Jer 14:16-17
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    16 And the people to whom they are prophets will be pushed out dead into the streets of Jerusalem, because there is no food, and because of the sword; and they will have no one to put their bodies into the earth, them or their wives or their sons or their daughters: for I will let loose their evil-doing on them.

    17 And you are to say this word to them, Let my eyes be streaming with water night and day, and let it not be stopped; for the virgin daughter of my people is wounded with a great wound, with a very bitter blow.

  • Joel 1:13-14
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    13 Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.

    14 Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.

  • Lam 2:20
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    20 Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

  • Jer 16:5
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    5 For this is what the Lord has said: Do not go into the house of sorrow, do not go to make weeping or songs of grief for them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, even mercy and pity.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
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    9 For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.

  • Hag 1:5
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    5 For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.

  • Joel 3:9
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    9 And further, what are you to me, O Tyre and Zidon and all the circle of Philistia? will you give me back any payment? and if you do, quickly and suddenly I will send it back on your head,

  • Jer 4:8
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    8 For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.

  • Jer 6:26
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    26 O daughter of my people, put on haircloth, rolling yourself in the dust: give yourself to sorrow, as for an only son, with most bitter cries of grief; for he who makes waste will come on us suddenly.

  • Joel 2:12
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    12 But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:

  • Ezek 9:6-7
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    6 Give up to destruction old men and young men and virgins, little children and women: but do not come near any man who has the mark on him: and make a start at my holy place. So they made a start with the old men who were before the house.

    7 And he said to them, Make the house unclean, make the open places full of dead: go forward and send destruction on the town.

  • Joel 2:16-17
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    16 Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.

    17 Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?

  • Jer 15:8-9
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    8 I have let their widows be increased in number more than the sand of the seas: I have sent against them, against the mother and the young men, one who makes waste in the heat of the day, causing pain and fears to come on her suddenly.

    9 The mother of seven is without strength; her spirit is gone from her, her sun has gone down while it is still day: she has been shamed and overcome: and the rest of them I will give up to the sword before their haters, says the Lord.

  • Isa 32:11
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    11 Be shaking with fear, you women who are living in comfort; be troubled, you who have no fear of danger: take off your robes and put on clothing of grief.

  • Mic 1:8
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    8 For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.

  • Jer 18:21
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    21 For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

  • Jer 19:1
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    1 This is what the Lord has said: Go and get for money a potter's bottle made of earth, and take with you some of the responsible men of the people and of the priests;

  • Jer 7:17-18
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    17 Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

    18 The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.

  • Ezek 9:4
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    4 The Lord said to him, Go through the town, through the middle of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the brows of the men who are sorrowing and crying for all the disgusting things which are done in it.

  • Jer 9:10
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    10 Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.

  • Zech 6:9
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    9 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Lam 1:17
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    17 Zion's hands are outstretched; she has no comforter; the Lord has given orders to the attackers of Jacob round about him: Jerusalem has become like an unclean thing among them.

  • Jer 15:2
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    2 And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as are to be taken away prisoners, to be taken away.

  • Hos 9:5
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    5 What will you do on the day of worship, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?

  • Isa 51:19
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    19 These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?

  • Jer 44:7
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    7 So now, the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Why are you doing this great evil against yourselves, causing every man and woman, little child and baby at the breast among you in Judah to be cut off till not one is still living;

  • Ezek 9:1
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    1 Then crying out in my hearing in a loud voice, he said, Let the overseers of the town come near, every man armed.

  • Mic 4:9
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    9 Now why are you crying so loudly? is there no king in you? has destruction come on your wise helper? so that pains have taken you like the pains of a woman in childbirth:

  • Isa 32:9
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    9 Give ear to my voice, you women who are living in comfort; give attention to my words, you daughters who have no fear of danger.

  • Zech 8:18
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    18 And the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying,

  • Isa 8:19
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    19 And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead?