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Jeremiah 9:19
19Listen to the people who are crying in Jerusalem! They say, “A terrible thing has happened to us! We are very ashamed! Our enemies have destroyed our houses. Now we have to leave our land.” ’
Jeremiah 9:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)The sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How ruined we are! How great is our shame! We must leave our land because our houses are in ruins.’ ”
- English Standard Version (ESV)For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion: 'How we are ruined! We are utterly shamed, because we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.'"
- New King James Version (NKJV)For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How we are plundered! We are greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because we have been cast out of our dwellings.’ ”
Context of Jeremiah 9:19
17The Lord Almighty said this: ‘Think about what is happening! Call the women who weep at funerals. Bring those women who know what to do.’ 18‘Yes, tell them to come quickly to sing funeral songs for us. Then tears will pour from our eyes, and we will not stop weeping. Listen to the people who are crying in Jerusalem! They say, “A terrible thing has happened to us! We are very ashamed! Our enemies have destroyed our houses. Now we have to leave our land.” ’ 20‘Now hear the Lord's message, you women. Listen to what he says to you. Teach your daughters how to weep. Teach each other this funeral song: 21“Death has come to visit us! It has come into our strong houses. Death has taken away our children who play in the streets. It has taken away our young men who meet together in the streets.”
Read all of Jeremiah 9Jeremiah 9:19 word by word
כִּ֣י ק֥וֹל נְהִ֛י נִשְׁמַ֥ע מִצִּיּ֖וֹן אֵ֣יךְ שֻׁדָּ֑דְנוּ בֹּ֤שְׁנֽוּ מְאֹד֙ כִּֽי־עָזַ֣בְנוּ אָ֔רֶץ כִּ֥י הִשְׁלִ֖יכוּ מִשְׁכְּנוֹתֵֽינוּ׃ סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- For a voiceקוֹלqôl qôl · voice: soundH6963
- of wailingנְהִיnehîy · wailingH5092
- is heardשָׁמַעshâma‛ · to hear: hearH8085
- out of Zionצִיּוֹןtsîyôn · ZionH6726
- How are we spoiledשָׁדַדshâdad · to ruinH7703
- we are greatlyמְאֹדme'ôd · muchH3966
- confoundedבּוֹשׁbûsh · be ashamedH954
- because we have forsakenעָזַב‛âzab · to leave: forsakeH5800
- the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
- because our dwellingsמִשְׁכָּןmishkân · tabernacleH4908
- outשָׁלַךְshâlak · to throwH7993
Cross-references for Jeremiah 9:19
- Jeremiah 4:31I can hear people who are calling out. It sounds like a woman who is giving birth to her first baby. She is calling out with great pain. It is Jerusalem who is crying! She is calling out for help. She says, ‘Help me! I am very weak. These murderers have come to kill me!’
- Ezekiel 7:16Those who remain alive will escape. They will run to the mountains. They will be like doves that hunters have chased out of the valleys. They will cry aloud because of their sins.
- Micah 1:8Because of what God has said, I will cry aloud. And I will weep. I will walk about without shoes or clothes. I will scream like a wild dog, and I will cry like a bird in the night.
- Jeremiah 2:14Israel's people are surely not slaves. They were not born as slaves. But their enemies have taken them away as prisoners.
- Jeremiah 4:13Look! The enemy army is coming like dark clouds! Their chariots make the noise of a storm. Their horses move faster than eagles in the sky. Terrible trouble has come. We will all die!
- Deuteronomy 28:29Even at midday, you will not see your way. You will be in the dark, like a blind person. You will not be able to go anywhere, whatever you do. Every day, people will be cruel to you. People will rob you. No one will be there to save you.
- Lamentations 5:2Strangers have taken the land that our ancestors gave to us. Foreign people live in our homes.
- Micah 2:4At that time, your enemies will laugh at you. They will sing this sad song against you: “God has completely destroyed us! We no longer have any fields, because God has taken them away from us. He has given them to our enemies, who have turned away from what is right.”
- Leviticus 18:25Canaan is unclean because the people did these things. This is why God pushed the people out of that land.
- Leviticus 20:22If the people want to remain in the land that I am giving to them, they must obey my laws and my rules.
- Lamentations 4:15‘Go away!’ people shouted at them. ‘Do not touch us! You are too dirty to be among God's people!’ So they went away to other countries, but the people there did not want them. ‘They cannot stay here with us!’ those people said.
- Micah 2:10Get up and go away! You cannot remain in this place because you have made it bad. It is so bad that it will completely destroy you.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 9:19
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10-22Verses 10-22 The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three verses is now detailed at great length. Jeremiah 9:10 The habitations i. e - the temporary encampments of the shepherds (see Jeremiah 6:3). So that none can - Or, “They are parched up, with no man to pass through them; neither do they hear the voice of cattle; from the birds of the heaven even to the beasts they “are fled, they are gone.” Jeremiah 9:11 Dragons - Rather…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-22Verses 12-22 In Zion the voice of joy and praise used to be heard, while the people kept close to God; but sin has altered the sound, it is now the voice of lamentation. Unhumbled hearts lament their calamity, but not their sin, which is the cause of it. Let the doors be shut ever so fast, death steals upon us. It enters the palaces of princes and great men, though stately, strongly built, and guarded. Nor are those more safe that are abroad; death cuts…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18-19The mourners began their work right away. They mourned those who had died and grieved for Jerusalem, which faced destruction. They joined the people of Jerusalem who had lost their homes and had to flee as refugees.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. The cry of "the mourning women." spoiled--laid waste. dwellings cast us out--fulfilling Le 18:28; 20:22. Calvin translates, "The enemy have cast down our habitations."Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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