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Jeremiah 9:20

World English Bible

Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women.
Let your ear receive the word of his mouth.
Teach your daughters wailing.
Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.

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Jeremiah 9:20 in other translations

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.

Jeremiah 9:20 · American Standard Version

Jeremiah 9:20 in context

  1. 18Let 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.
  2. 19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion,
    ‘How we are ruined!
    We are greatly confounded
    because we have forsaken the land,
    because they have cast down our dwellings.’ ”
  3. 20Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women.
    Let your ear receive the word of his mouth.
    Teach your daughters wailing.
    Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.
  4. 21For death has come up into our windows.
    It has entered into our palaces
    to cut off the children from outside,
    and the young men from the streets.
  5. 22Speak, “Yahweh says,
    “ ‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field,
    and as the handful after the harvester.
    No one will gather them.’ ”