Jeremiah 9:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

Yet 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.

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  • Job 22:22 : 22 Receive, I pray you, the law from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.
  • Isa 32:9-9 : 9 Rise up, you women who are at ease; hear my voice, you careless daughters; give ear to my speech. 10 In many days and years you shall be troubled, you careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. 11 Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you careless ones: strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon your waists. 12 They shall lament for the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
  • Luke 23:27-30 : 27 And a great crowd of people followed Him, and of women who also mourned and lamented Him. 28 But Jesus, turning to them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For indeed, the days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never nursed. 30 Then they will begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
  • Isa 3:16 : 16 Moreover the LORD says, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, making a tinkling with their feet:
  • Jer 9:17-18 : 17 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: 18 And 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.
  • Isa 3:4 : 4 And I will make youths their princes, and children shall rule over them.

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    17Thus 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:

    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.'

  • Jer 9:21
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    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.

  • Jer 6:26
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    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.

  • Amos 5:16
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    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.

  • Jer 16:3
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    3For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who begot them in this land:

  • Jer 4:31
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    31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, and the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

  • Isa 32:9-12
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    9Rise up, you women who are at ease; hear my voice, you careless daughters; give ear to my speech.

    10In many days and years you shall be troubled, you careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.

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

    12They shall lament for the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

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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?

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    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.'

  • Lam 2:20-21
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    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?

    21The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have killed, and not pitied.

  • Mic 2:9
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    9The women of my people you have cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children you have taken away my glory forever.

  • Joel 1:8
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    8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
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    9For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

  • Lam 2:10-12
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    10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, and keep silence: they have thrown dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

    11My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

    12They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out in their mothers' bosom.

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    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.

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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.

    10Be in pain and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you shall go forth out of the city, and you shall dwell in the field, and you shall go even to Babylon; there you shall be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

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    4Therefore I said, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, do not labor to comfort me, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Lam 4:10
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    10The hands of the compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Isa 3:26
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    26And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she being desolate shall sit on the ground.

  • Deut 28:56
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    56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

  • Isa 3:16
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    16Moreover the LORD says, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, making a tinkling with their feet:

  • Hos 9:12
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    12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left; yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!

  • Jer 13:21
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    21What will you say when he shall punish you? For you have taught them to be captains, and as chief over you: shall sorrows not take hold of you, as a woman in labor?

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    1Hear this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

  • Ezek 26:6
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    6And her daughters who are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

  • Jer 4:8
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    8For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

  • Ezek 16:35
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    35Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD;

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    12And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

  • Lam 1:17
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    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 18:21
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    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.

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    22Yet, behold, in it shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come to you, and you shall see their way and their deeds: and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.

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    17Therefore thus says the LORD; Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you shall die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity from his land.

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    23O inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how gracious shall you be when pangs come upon you, the pain as of a woman in labor!

  • Isa 22:12
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    12And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.

  • Isa 15:3
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    3In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth; on the tops of their houses and in their streets, everyone shall wail, weeping abundantly.

  • Jer 9:10
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    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.