Jeremiah 9:19
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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.For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”
In other translations
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.For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”
Hebrew words
כִּיkiforH3588קוֹלkola sound ofH6963נְהִיnehiwailingH5092נִשְׁמַעnishma'it has been heardH8085מִצִּיּוֹןmitziyonfrom ZionH6726אֵיךְ'eikhhow!H349שֻׁדָּדְנוּshudadenuwe have been devastatedH7703בֹּשְׁנוּboshenuwe have been put to shameH954מְאֹדme'odexceedinglyH3966כִּי־ki-forH3588עָזַבְנוּ'azavnuwe have leftH5800אָרֶץ'aretz[the] landH776כִּיkiforH3588הִשְׁלִיכוּhishlikhupeople have cast downH7993מִשְׁכְּנוֹתֵינוּ׃ סmishkenoteinudwellings ourH4908
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Jeremiah 4:13Behold, 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.Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!
- Deuteronomy 28:29And 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.and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
- Ezekiel 7:16-1816 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. 17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. 18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.16 The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity. 17 Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water. 18 They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved.
- Micah 2:4In 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! turning away he hath divided our fields.In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”
- Jeremiah 4:20Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.
- Jeremiah 2:14Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?
- Leviticus 20:22Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.
- Lamentations 4:15They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.“Go away! Unclean!” men shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” So they fled and wandered. Among the nations it was said, “They can stay here no longer.”
- Leviticus 18:28That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.
- Lamentations 5:2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
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