Jeremiah 9:20 · KJV
“Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.”
— Jeremiah 9:20
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast {us} out.
For death is come up into our windows, {and} is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, {and} the young men from the streets.
Jeremiah 9 — Context
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.
19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! 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 ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
21For death is come up into our windows, {and} is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, {and} the young men from the streets.
22Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather {them}.
Cross References
Luke 23:27-30
And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
Isaiah 32:9-13
Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
Job 22:22
Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
Isaiah 3:16
Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing {as} they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: {wanton...: Heb. deceiving with their eyes} {mincing: or, tripping nicely}
Jeremiah 9:17-18
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning {women}, that they may come:
Isaiah 3:4
And I will give children {to be} their princes, and babes shall rule over them.