Jeremiah 9:18-21

Jeremiah Grieves for His People

18 let them make haste s and raise a wailing over us,
t that our eyes may run down with tears
and our eyelids flow with water.
 19 For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
u 'How we are ruined!
We are utterly shamed,
because we have left the land,
because they have cast down our dwellings.'"

20 Hear, O women, the word of the Lord,
and let your ear receive the word of his mouth;
teach to your daughters a lament,
and each to her neighbor a dirge.
 21 For death has come up into our windows;
it has entered our palaces,
v cutting off the children from the streets
and the young men from the squares.

  1. Cross References
    Amos 5:16
    Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord: "In all the squares there shall be wailing, and in all the streets they shall say, 'Alas! Alas!' They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation.
    Matthew 9:23
    And when Jesus came to the ruler's house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion.
    Mark 5:38
    They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.
  2. Cross References
    Jeremiah 9:1
    Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
    Jeremiah 14:17
    You shall say to them this word: 'Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound, with a very grievous blow.
  3. Cross References
    Jeremiah 4:13
    Behold, he comes up like clouds; his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles - woe to us, for we are ruined!
  4. Cross References
    Jeremiah 6:11
    Therefore I am full of the wrath of the Lord ; I am weary of holding it in. "Pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the gatherings of young men, also; both husband and wife shall be taken, the elderly and the very aged.
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