Jeremiah 9:17

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'Let them come quickly and lift up a lament over us so that our eyes may overflow with tears and our eyelids stream with water.'

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  • Eccl 12:5 : 5 They are also afraid of heights and dangers along the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, for the man is going to his eternal home, and mourners walk around in the streets.
  • 2 Chr 35:25 : 25 Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah, and all the male and female singers have sung about Josiah in their laments to this day. These became a tradition in Israel and are written in the Laments.
  • Job 3:8 : 8 Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled to rouse Leviathan.
  • Amos 5:16-17 : 16 Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Hosts, the Lord says: There will be wailing in all the open squares, and in all the streets they will say, 'Woe, woe!' They will summon the farmer to mourning and professional mourners to lamentation. 17 In all the vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through your midst—this is what the Lord has declared.
  • Matt 9:23 : 23 When Jesus entered the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the noisy crowd,
  • Mark 5:38 : 38 They came to the house of the synagogue leader, and Jesus saw a commotion with people weeping and wailing loudly.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 9:18-21
    4 verses
    82%

    18'For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: “How devastated we are! We are utterly ashamed, for we have left the land and our dwellings have been cast off.”'

    19'Hear the word of the Lord, you women; let your ears receive the words of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail and one another to mourn.'

    20'For death has climbed in through our windows and entered our fortresses, cutting off children from the streets and young men from the public squares.'

    21Speak, this is what the Lord declares: The dead bodies of people will fall like dung on the open field, like bundles left behind by the reaper, with no one to gather them.

  • Amos 5:16
    77%

    16Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Hosts, the Lord says: There will be wailing in all the open squares, and in all the streets they will say, 'Woe, woe!' They will summon the farmer to mourning and professional mourners to lamentation.

  • Isa 22:12
    74%

    12In that day the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, called you to weeping, wailing, shaving your heads, and wearing sackcloth.

  • Joel 1:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8Mourn like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

    9Grain offerings and drink offerings are cut off from the house of the Lord. The priests, the ministers of the Lord, mourn.

  • Jer 9:16
    73%

    16This is what the Lord of Hosts says: 'Consider and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skilled wailing women to arrive.'

  • Zech 7:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3They asked the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts and the prophets, 'Should I weep in the fifth month and abstain, as I have done for so many years?'

    4Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying:

  • Mic 2:9
    72%

    9You drive the women of my people out of their pleasant homes. You take away my splendor from their children forever.

  • Hag 1:7
    72%

    7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Consider carefully your ways.

  • Jer 14:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16And the people to whom they are prophesying will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters. I will pour out their wickedness upon them.

    17You are to speak this word to them: 'Let my eyes flow with tears night and day without ceasing, for the virgin daughter of my people has suffered a great shattering—a crushing blow, a grievous wound.'

  • Joel 1:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister to my God, for grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

    14Declare a holy fast; proclaim a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.

  • Lam 2:20
    72%

    20Look, LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their own children, the little ones they have cherished? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

  • Jer 16:5
    72%

    5For this is what the LORD says: Do not enter a house of mourning. Do not go to lament or console them, for I have withdrawn My peace from this people, declares the LORD, as well as My lovingkindness and compassion.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
    72%

    9This is why our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons, daughters, and wives are in captivity today.

  • Hag 1:5
    72%

    5Now, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: Consider carefully your ways.

  • Joel 3:9
    71%

    9Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Arouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and advance.

  • Jer 4:8
    71%

    8For this, put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.

  • Jer 6:26
    71%

    26O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes; mourn as for an only son, with bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

  • Joel 2:12
    71%

    12Even now, declares the LORD, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

  • Ezek 9:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6Old men, young men, virgins, children, and women—kill them all to the point of destruction. But do not go near anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.' So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.

    7Then he said to them, 'Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!' So they went out and struck down people in the city.

  • Joel 2:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16Gather the people, consecrate the assembly; bring together the elders, gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom come out from his chamber and the bride from her wedding canopy.

    17Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, 'Spare your people, LORD. Do not make your heritage an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, “Where is their God?”'

  • Jer 15:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8Their widows have increased to Me more than the sand of the seas. I have brought against them a destroyer at noon, and I have caused anguish and terror to fall upon the city suddenly.

    9The mother of seven has grown weak and faint; she has breathed her last. Her sun has set while it was still day; she has been disgraced and humiliated. And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword in the presence of their enemies,' declares the LORD.

  • Isa 32:11
    70%

    11Tremble, you who are at ease; shudder, you who feel secure! Strip yourselves bare and put on sackcloth around your waists.

  • Mic 1:8
    70%

    8Because of this, I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like jackals and mourn like ostriches.

  • Jer 18:21
    70%

    21So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, and let their men die by deadly disease; let their young men be struck down in battle.

  • Jer 19:1
    70%

    1This is what the LORD said: Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and of the priests with you.

  • Jer 7:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

    18The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods, provoking me to anger.

  • Ezek 9:4
    70%

    4The LORD said to him, 'Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and mark a sign on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the detestable things being done within it.'

  • Jer 9:10
    70%

    10I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah desolate, without inhabitants.

  • Zech 6:9
    70%

    9The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Lam 1:17
    70%

    17Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed for Jacob that his neighbors become his foes; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

  • Jer 15:2
    70%

    2And if they ask you, 'Where should we go?' tell them, 'This is what the LORD says: Those destined for death, to death; those for the sword, to the sword; those for famine, to famine; and those for captivity, to captivity.'

  • Hos 9:5
    70%

    5What will you do on the day of your appointed festival, on the day of the LORD’s feast?

  • Isa 51:19
    70%

    19These double calamities have come upon you—destruction and devastation, famine and sword. Who will console you?

  • Jer 44:7
    69%

    7Now therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves, cutting off from Judah man, woman, child, and infant, leaving yourselves without any remnant?

  • Ezek 9:1
    69%

    1Then he called out in a loud voice for me to hear, saying, 'Bring near those appointed to punish the city, each carrying his weapon of destruction in his hand.'

  • Mic 4:9
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    9Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished, that pain seizes you like a woman in labor?

  • Isa 32:9
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    9Rise up, you women who are at ease; listen to my voice! You daughters who feel secure, pay attention to what I say!

  • Zech 8:18
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    18The word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying:

  • Isa 8:19
    69%

    19When they say to you, 'Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter,' shouldn’t a people consult their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?