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Jeremiah 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.

KJV

Audite ergo, mulieres, verbum Domini, et assumant aures vestræ sermonem oris ejus, et docete filias vestras lamentum, et unaquæque proximam suam planctum :

Vulgate

ἀκούσατε δή, γυναῖκες, λόγον θεοῦ, καὶ δεξάσθω τὰ ὦτα ὑμῶν λόγους στόματος αὐτοῦ, καὶ διδάξατε τὰς θυγατέρας ὑμῶν οἶκτον, καὶ γυνὴ τὴν πλησίον αὐτῆς θρῆνον.

LXX

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.

ASV

כִּֽי עָ֤לָה מָ֨וֶת֙ בְּ/חַלּוֹנֵ֔י/נוּ בָּ֖א בְּ/אַרְמְנוֹתֵ֑י/נוּ לְ/הַכְרִ֤ית עוֹלָל֙ מִ/ח֔וּץ בַּחוּרִ֖ים מֵ/רְחֹבֽוֹת

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בַּחוּרִ֖ים
bchvrym
verb · 46×
בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
ה
h
noun · 164×
הִכְרַתִּ֥י
hkrty
verb · 283×
הָ
h
noun · 32×
הָ
h
noun · 20×
הָ
h
noun · 43×
וֹ
v
noun · 157×
חַלּ֑וֹן
chlvn
noun · 32×
יַּ֥עַל
y'l
verb · 885×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Isa 3:16 — Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
  • Isa 32:9 — Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
  • Jer 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:
  • Jer 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.
  • Jer 23:16 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
  • Job 22:22 — Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
  • Luke 23:27 — And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
  • Prov 4:10 — Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.