Jeremiah 9:17

17 Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Consider and call for the 1mourning women, that they may come; And send for the 2wailing women, that they may come!

Jeremiah 9:17 In-Context

15 therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
16 "I will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them until I have annihilated them."
17 Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come; And send for the wailing women, that they may come!
18 "Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, That our eyes may shed tears And our eyelids flow with water.
19 "For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion, 'How are we ruined! We are put to great shame, For we have left the land, Because they have cast down our dwellings.' "

Cross References 2

  • 1. 2 Chronicles 35:25; Ecclesiastes 12:5
  • 2. Amos 5:16

Footnotes 1

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