Jeremiah 9:20 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“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.”
Jeremiah 9:20 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Jeremiah 9:20 in 6 Bible Translations
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Jeremiah 9:20 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.”
Jeremiah 9:20 — World English Bible
Jeremiah 9:20 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“Yet 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. ”
Jeremiah 9:20 — American Standard Version
Jeremiah 9:20 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“But hear, ye women, a word of Jehovah, And your ear receiveth a word of His mouth, And teach ye your daughters wailing, and each her neighbour lamentation.”
Jeremiah 9:20 — Young's Literal Translation
Jeremiah 9:20 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“Hear then the word of Jehovah, ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and each one her companion lamentation. ”
Jeremiah 9:20 — Darby Translation
Jeremiah 9:20 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“Therefore heare the worde of the Lord, O ye women, and let your eares regard the words of his mouth, and teach your daughters to mourne, and euery one her neighbour to lament.”
Jeremiah 9:20 — Geneva Bible
Jeremiah 9:20 in Context — Jeremiah 9
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.
21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
22 Speak, Thus saith the Lord, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
What Does Jeremiah 9:20 Mean?
Jeremiah 9:20 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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