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Jeremiah 9:18

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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.

And let them make haste {H4116}, and take up {H5375} a wailing {H5092} for us, that our eyes {H5869} may run down {H3381} with tears {H1832}, and our eyelids {H6079} gush out {H5140} with waters {H4325}.

'Have them hurry and wail for us, so our eyes will be wet from crying, and our eyelids gush with tears.'

Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.

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.

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Cross-References

  • Jeremiah 14:17 (5 votes)

    ¶ Therefore 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 blow.

  • Jeremiah 9:1 (5 votes)

    ¶ 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!

  • Isaiah 22:4 (3 votes)

    Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

  • Jeremiah 9:10 (2 votes)

    For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through [them]; neither can [men] hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

  • Lamentations 1:2 (2 votes)

    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.

  • Lamentations 2:11 (2 votes)

    Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

  • Jeremiah 9:20 (2 votes)

    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.