Jeremiah 9:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

Thus says the LORD of hosts, Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilled women, that they may come:

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  • Eccl 12:5 : 5 Also when they are afraid of what is high, and fears are in the way, and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper is a burden, and desire fails: because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
  • 2 Chr 35:25 : 25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and the singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day and made them an ordinance in Israel. And behold, they are written in the lamentations.
  • Job 3:8 : 8 Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to stir up their lamentation.
  • Amos 5:16-17 : 16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, says thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skilled in lamentation to wailing. 17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through you, says the LORD.
  • Matt 9:23 : 23 And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,
  • Mark 5:38 : 38 And he came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and saw the tumult, and those who wept and wailed greatly.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 9:18-21
    4 verses
    82%

    18And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

    19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, 'How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.'

    20Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.

    21For death has climbed up into our windows, and has entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.

  • Amos 5:16
    77%

    16Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, says thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skilled in lamentation to wailing.

  • Isa 22:12
    74%

    12And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.

  • Joel 1:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

    9The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.

  • Jer 9:16
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    16I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

  • Zech 7:3-4
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    72%

    3And to speak to the priests who were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these many years?

    4Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

  • Mic 2:9
    72%

    9The women of my people you have cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children you have taken away my glory forever.

  • Hag 1:7
    72%

    7Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

  • Jer 14:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; they will have no one to bury them—neither them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters—for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

    17Therefore, you shall speak this word to them: 'Let my eyes flow with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.'

  • Joel 1:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

    14Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,

  • Lam 2:20
    72%

    20Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom You have done this. Shall the women eat their offspring, the children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

  • Jer 16:5
    72%

    5For thus says the LORD, Do not enter the house of mourning, nor go to lament or bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
    72%

    9For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

  • Hag 1:5
    72%

    5Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

  • Joel 3:9
    71%

    9Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:

  • Jer 4:8
    71%

    8For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

  • Jer 6:26
    71%

    26O daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make lamentation, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

  • Joel 2:12
    71%

    12Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.

  • Ezek 9:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6Utterly slay old and young, both maidens, and little children, and women: but do not come near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began with the elders who were before the house.

    7And he said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go forth. And they went forth, and killed in the city.

  • Joel 2:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those who nurse at the breast. Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her room.

    17Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

  • Jer 15:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noon: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.

    9She that has borne seven languishes: she has given up the ghost; her sun has gone down while it was yet day: she has been ashamed and confounded: and the rest of them I will deliver to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD.

  • Isa 32:11
    70%

    11Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you careless ones: strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon your waists.

  • Mic 1:8
    70%

    8Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning as the ostriches.

  • Jer 18:21
    70%

    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

  • Jer 19:1
    70%

    1Thus says the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

  • Jer 7:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

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

    18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

  • Ezek 9:4
    70%

    4And the LORD said to him, Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry for all the abominations that are done in it.

  • Jer 9:10
    70%

    10For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

  • Zech 6:9
    70%

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

  • Lam 1:17
    70%

    17Zion spreads forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD has commanded concerning Jacob that his adversaries should be all around him: Jerusalem is like a menstruous woman among them.

  • Jer 15:2
    70%

    2And it shall come to pass, if they say to you, Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says the LORD; Those for death, to death; and those for the sword, to the sword; and those for the famine, to the famine; and those for the captivity, to the captivity.

  • Hos 9:5
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    5What will you do in the appointed day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

  • Isa 51:19
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    19These two things have come upon you; who shall feel sorry for you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort you?

  • Jer 44:7
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    7Therefore now thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Why do you commit this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, out of Judah, to leave you no one to remain;

  • Ezek 9:1
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    1He also cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Bring near those who have charge over the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.

  • Mic 4:9
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    9Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished? For pangs have taken you like a woman in labor.

  • Isa 32:9
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    9Rise up, you women who are at ease; hear my voice, you careless daughters; give ear to my speech.

  • Zech 8:18
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    18And the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

  • Isa 8:19
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    19And when they say to you, Seek those who have familiar spirits, and wizards that whisper and mutter: should not a people seek their God? for the living to the dead?