Verse 20

I said,“So now, you wailing women, listen to the LORD’s message. Open your ears to the message from his mouth. Teach your daughters this mournful song, and let every woman teach her neighbor this lament.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 22:22 : 22 Accept instruction from his mouth and store up his words in your heart.
  • Isa 32:9-9 : 9 The Lord Will Give True Security You complacent women, get up and listen to me! You carefree daughters, pay attention to what I say! 10 In a year’s time you carefree ones will shake with fear, for the grape harvest will fail, and the fruit harvest will not arrive. 11 Tremble, you complacent ones! Shake with fear, you carefree ones! Strip off your clothes and expose yourselves– put sackcloth on your waist! 12 Mourn over the field, over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine! 13 Mourn over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once-happy houses in the city filled with revelry.
  • Luke 23:27-30 : 27 A great number of the people followed him, among them women who were mourning and wailing for him. 28 But Jesus turned to them and said,“Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say,‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that 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 Washing Away Impurity The LORD says,“The women of Zion are proud. They walk with their heads high and flirt with their eyes. They skip along and the jewelry on their ankles jingles.
  • Jer 9:17-18 : 17 The LORD of Heaven’s Armies told me to say to this people,“Take note of what I say. Call for the women who mourn for the dead! Summon those who are the most skilled at it!” 18 I said,“Indeed, let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us. Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes and our eyelids overflow with water.
  • Isa 3:4 : 4 The LORD says,“I will make youths their officials; malicious young men will rule over them.