Jeremiah 9:19
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.
KJV
Quia vox lamentationis audita est de Sion : Quomodo vastati sumus, et confusi vehementer ? quia dereliquimus terram ; quoniam dejecta sunt tabernacula nostra.
Vulgate
ὅτι φωνὴ οἰκτροῦ ἠκούσθη ἐν Σειών Πῶς ἐταλαιπωρήσαμεν, κατῃσχύνθημεν σφόδρα, ὅτι ἐνκατελίπομεν τὴν γῆν καὶ ἀπερίψαμεν τὰ σκηνώματα ἡμῶν.
LXX
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.
ASV
כִּֽי שְׁמַ֤עְנָה נָשִׁים֙ דְּבַר יְהוָ֔ה וְ/תִקַּ֥ח אָזְנְ/כֶ֖ם דְּבַר פִּ֑י/ו וְ/לַמֵּ֤דְנָה בְנֽוֹתֵי/כֶם֙ נֶ֔הִי וְ/אִשָּׁ֥ה רְעוּתָ֖/הּ קִינָֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Was it necessary for Christ to suffer for men's deliverance? Was there any other possible means of delivering men? Was this the more suitable means? Was it fitting for Christ to suffer on the cross? The extent of His sufferings Was the pain which He endured the greatest? Did His entire soul suffer? Did His Passion hinder the joy of fruition? The time of the Passion The place Wa…
Cross-references
- Deut 28:29 — And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
- Ezek 7:16 — But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
- Jer 4:13 — Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
- Jer 7:19 — Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
- Lev 18:28 — That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
- Mic 2:10 — Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
- Zeph 1:13 — Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.