Jeremiah 9:18 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“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.”
Jeremiah 9:18 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Jeremiah 9:18 in 6 Bible Translations
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Jeremiah 9:18 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“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.”
Jeremiah 9:18 — World English Bible
Jeremiah 9:18 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“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. ”
Jeremiah 9:18 — American Standard Version
Jeremiah 9:18 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow.”
Jeremiah 9:18 — Young's Literal Translation
Jeremiah 9:18 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids pour forth waters. ”
Jeremiah 9:18 — Darby Translation
Jeremiah 9:18 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“And let them make haste, and let them take vp a lamentation for vs, that our eyes may cast out teares and our eye liddes gush out of water.”
Jeremiah 9:18 — Geneva Bible
Jeremiah 9:18 in Context — Jeremiah 9
16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
17 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:
18 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.
19 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.
20 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.
What Does Jeremiah 9:18 Mean?
Jeremiah 9:18 is a verse from the Book of Jeremiah, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Jeremiah chapter 9. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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