Jeremiah 9:20
Jeremiah chapter 9 · verse 20 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Yet 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
Context
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.
v.20This passage
v.21For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Luke 23:27
And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him.
- Isaiah 32:9
Rise up, ye women that are at ease, andhear my voice; ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech.
- Isaiah 3:16
Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet;
- Job 22:22
Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, And lay up his words in thy heart.
- Isaiah 3:4
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
- Jeremiah 9:17
Thus 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: