Jeremiah 9:18

Jeremiah 9:18 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And let 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.
• New International Version (NIV)Let them come quickly and wail over us till our eyes overflow with tears and water streams from our eyelids.
• English Standard Version (ESV)let them make haste and raise a wailing over us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids flow with water.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Let them make haste And take up a wailing for us, That our eyes may run with tears, And our eyelids gush with water.

Context of Jeremiah 9:18

16I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. 17Thus saith Yhwh of Armies, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: And let 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. 19For 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. 20Yet hear the word of Yhwh, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.

Jeremiah 9:18 word by word

וּתְמַהֵ֕רְנָה וְתִשֶּׂ֥נָה עָלֵ֖ינוּ נֶ֑הִי וְתֵרַ֤דְנָה עֵינֵ֙ינוּ֙ דִּמְעָ֔ה וְעַפְעַפֵּ֖ינוּ יִזְּלוּ־מָֽיִם׃Read the interlinear

• And let them make hasteמָהַרmâhar · to hastenH4116
• and take upנָשָׂאnâώâ' nâsâh · to lift: raiseH5375
• a wailingנְהִיnehîy · wailingH5092
• for us, that our eyesעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869
• may run downיָרַדyârad · to go downH3381
• with tearsדִּמְעָהdim‛âh · tearsH1832
• and our eyelidsעַפְעַף‛aph‛aph · eyelidH6079
• gush outנָזַלnâzal · to flowH5140
• with watersמַיmayim · waterH4325

Cross-references for Jeremiah 9:18

• Jeremiah 9:10For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
• Jeremiah 9:1Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
• Jeremiah 6:26O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
• Jeremiah 13:17But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Yhwh's flock is carried away captive.
• Jeremiah 14:17Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
• Isaiah 22:4Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
• Lamentations 1:2She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
• Lamentations 2:11Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
• Luke 19:41And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

Commentaries on Jeremiah 9:18

• 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. 1818. (Jr 14:17).Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 9:18

• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• War

In the dictionaries

• Adulterer
• Arrow
• Desolate
• Heaven
• Perish
• Teach
• Wait
• Burial
• Covenant, the New
• Eyelid

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