Jeremiah 9:17
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:
KJV
Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Israël : Contemplamini, et vocate lamentatrices, et veniant : et ad eas quæ sapientes sunt mittite, et properent :
Vulgate
Τάδε λέγει Κύριος Καλέσατε τὰς θρηνούσας καὶ ἐλθέτωσαν, καὶ πρὸς τὰς σοφὰς ἀποστείλατε καὶ φθεγξάσθωσαν
LXX
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:
ASV
וּ/תְמַהֵ֕רְנָה וְ/תִשֶּׂ֥נָה עָלֵ֖י/נוּ נֶ֑הִי וְ/תֵרַ֤דְנָה עֵינֵ֨י/נוּ֙ דִּמְעָ֔ה וְ/עַפְעַפֵּ֖י/נוּ יִזְּלוּ מָֽיִם
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. What I have often said, I will now say, that Christ looks not so much to His own honor as to our salvation; not how He may utter some sublime saying, but how something able to draw us to Him. On which account His sublime and mighty sayings are few, and those also hidden, but the humble and lowly are many, and abound through His discourses. For since by these men were the rat…
Cross-references
- 2Chr 35:25 — And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written i
- 2Chr 35:25 — And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written i
- Amos 5:1 — Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
- Amos 5:16 — Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and suc
- Amos 5:16 — Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and suc
- Eccl 12:5 — Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth
- Eccl 12:5 — Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth
- Ezek 27:2 — Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
- Ezek 32:16 — This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
- Jer 9:20 — 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.
- Matt 2:18 — In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
- Matt 11:17 — And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
- Mic 2:4 — In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! tu