New American Standard Bible 2020
Jeremiah 9:19
19For a voice of 1wailing is heard from Zion: ‘2How devastated we are! We are put to great shame, For we have 3abandoned the land Because they have torn down our homes.’”
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
17This is what the Lord of armies says: “Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come; And send for the skillful women, that they may come! 18Have them hurry and take up a wailing for us, So that our eyes may shed tears, And our eyelids flow with water. For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! We are put to great shame, For we have abandoned the land Because they have torn down our homes.’” 20Now hear the word of the Lord, you women, And let your ears receive the word of His mouth; Teach your daughters wailing, And have every woman teach her neighbor a song of mourning. 21For death has come up through our windows; It has entered our palaces To eliminate the children from the streets, The young men from the public squares.
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
- For a voiceקוֹלqôl qôl · voice: soundH6963
- wailingנְהִיnehîy · wailingH5092
- is heardשָׁמַעshâma‛ · to hear: hearH8085
- from Zionצִיּוֹןtsîyôn · ZionH6726
- Howאֵיךְ'êyk 'êykâh 'êykâkâh · how?H349
- devastatedשָׁדַדshâdad · to ruinH7703
- We are putבּוֹשׁbûsh · be ashamedH954
- greatמְאֹדme'ôd · muchH3966
- abandonedעָזַב‛âzab · to leave: forsakeH5800
- the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
- Becauseכִּיkîy · forH3588
- they have tornשָׁלַךְshâlak · to throwH7993
- our homesמִשְׁכָּןmishkân · tabernacleH4908
Cross-references for Jeremiah 9:19
- Jeremiah 4:31For I heard a voice cry as of a woman in labor, The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child. The voice of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, Stretching out her hands, saying, “Ah, woe to me, for I faint before murderers.”
- Ezekiel 7:16Even when their survivors escape, they will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each over his own wrongdoing.
- Micah 1:8Because of this I must mourn and wail, I must go barefoot and naked; I must do mourning like the jackals, And a mourning like the ostriches.
- Jeremiah 2:14“Is Israel a slave? Or is he a servant born in the home? Why has he become plunder?
- Jeremiah 4:13“Behold, he goes up like clouds, And his chariots like the whirlwind; His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!”
- Deuteronomy 28:29and you will be groping about at noon, just as a person who is blind gropes in the darkness, and you will not be successful in your ways; but you will only be oppressed and robbed all the time, with no one to save you.
- Lamentations 5:2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
- Micah 2:4On that day they will take up against you a song of mocking And utter a song of mourning and say, ‘We are completely destroyed! He exchanges the share of my people; How He removes it from me! To the apostate He apportions our fields.’
- Leviticus 18:25For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has vomited out its inhabitants.
- Leviticus 20:22‘You are therefore to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.
- Lamentations 4:15“Keep away! Unclean!” they cried out of themselves. “Keep away, keep away, do not touch!” For they distanced themselves as well as wandered; People among the nations said, “They shall not continue to reside with us.”
- Micah 2:10Arise and go, For this is no place of rest Because of the uncleanness that brings on destruction, A painful destruction.
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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Notes
- 1. Jeremiah 9:19 Jer 7:29; Ezek 7:16-18 ↩
- 2. Jeremiah 9:19 Deut 28:29; Jer 4:13 ↩
- 3. Jeremiah 9:19 Jer 7:15; 15:1 ↩
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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