Jeremiah 9:17
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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:This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.
In other translations
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:This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.
Hebrew words
כֹּהkohthusH3541אָמַר'amarhe saysH559יְהוָהyahwehYahwehH3068צְבָאוֹתtzeva'otof hostsH6635הִתְבּוֹנְנוּhitbonuconsiderH995וְקִרְאוּvekir'uand summonH7121לַמְקוֹנְנוֹתlamkonot<to> the wailing [women]H6969וּתְבוֹאֶינָהutevo'einahand they may comeH935וְאֶל־ve'el-and toH413הַחֲכָמוֹתhachakhamotthe skillful [women]H2450שִׁלְחוּshilchusendH7971וְתָבוֹאנָה׃vetavonahso they may comeH935
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Related verses
- Amos 5:16-1716 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 such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. 17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord.16 Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail. 17 There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.
- Ecclesiastes 12:5Also 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 to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels— for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.
- 2 Chronicles 35:25And 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 in the lamentations.Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the choirs of men and women sing laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Book of Laments.
- Mark 5:38And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.When they arrived at the house of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw the commotion and the people weeping and wailing loudly.
- Job 3:8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.May it be cursed by those who curse the day— those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
- Matthew 9:23And when Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,When Jesus entered the house of the synagogue leader, He saw the flute players and the noisy crowd.
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