Jeremiah 9:18
Jeremiah chapter 9 · verse 18 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000and 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901and 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.
Context
v.17Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilful women, that they may come:
v.18This passage
v.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 they have cast down our dwellings.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 14:17
And thou shalt say this word unto them, Let mine eyes run down 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 wound.
- Luke 19:41
And when he drew nigh, he saw the city and wept over it,
- Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
- Jeremiah 9:10
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passeth through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts are fled, they are gone.
- Isaiah 22:4
Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Lamentations 1:2
She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; Among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.