Jeremiah 9:17

Jeremiah 9:17 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
• New International Version (NIV)This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Consider now! Call for the wailing women to come; send for the most skillful of them.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Thus says the Lord of hosts: "Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skillful women to come;
• New King James Version (NKJV)Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider and call for the mourning women, That they may come; And send for skillful wailing women, That they may come.

Context of Jeremiah 9:17

15I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will pursue them with the sword, until I have finished with them.” 16Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Pay attention! Call the dirge-singers and let them come. Send for the most skillful wailers and let them come!” “Let them come quickly and lift up a wailing over us so our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush with water.” 18For a wailing voice is heard from Zion: “How we are ruined! We are utterly ashamed— we have forsaken the land, for they tore down our dwellings.” 19Now, hear the word of Adonai, O women, let your ear receive the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters wailing and everyone her neighbor a dirge.

Jeremiah 9:17 word by word

כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת הִתְבּֽוֹנְנ֛וּ וְקִרְא֥וּ לַמְקוֹנְנ֖וֹת וּתְבוֹאֶ֑ינָה וְאֶל־הַחֲכָמ֥וֹת שִׁלְח֖וּ וְתָבֽוֹאנָה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thus saithאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• of hostsצָבָאtsâbâ' tsebâ'âh · HostsH6635
• Considerבִּיןbîyn · to understandH995
• ye, and callקָרָאqârâ' · to call: call toH7121
• for the mourning womenקִינֵןqûn · to chantH6969
• that they may comeבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• and sendשָׁלַחshâlach · to send: departH7971
• for cunningחָכָםchâkâm · wiseH2450

Cross-references for Jeremiah 9:17

• 2 Chronicles 35:25Now Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah, and to this day all the singers, male and female, commemorated Josiah in their laments. And they made them an ordinance in Israel and behold, they are written in the lamentations.
• Job 3:8May those who curse, curse the day— those ready to awaken Leviathan.
• Ecclesiastes 12:5when they also are afraid of heights and of dangers on the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry fails to excite— for a man is going to his eternal home, and mourners go about in the street—
• Amos 5:16Therefore thus said Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot, my Lord: “There will be wailing in all plazas and in all streets. They will say: ‘Alas! Alas!’ The farmer will be called to mourning along with those who know the lamentation song.
• Matthew 9:23When Yeshua came into the synagogue leader’s house and saw the flute players and the noisy crowd wailing,
• Mark 5:38They come to the house of the synagogue leader. He sees a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 9:17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17Call for the mourning women - Those whose office it was to make lamentations at funerals, and to bewail the dead, for which they received pay. This custom continues to the present in Asiatic countries. In Ireland this custom also prevails, which no doubt their ancestors brought from the east. I have often witnessed it, and have given a specimen of this elsewhere. See the note on Matthew 9:23. The first lamentations for the dead consisted only in the…Read the comment
• 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. 17The Lord instructed the people to gather the professional mourners. These individuals often performed at funerals in the ancient Near East (see Amos 5:16; Mark 5:38).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1717. mourning women--hired to heighten lamentation by plaintive cries baring the breast, beating the arms, and suffering the hair to flow dishevelled (2Ch 35:25; Ec 12:5; Mt 9:23). cunning--skilled in wailing.Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 9:17

• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• Mourning
• War

In the dictionaries

• Lord of Hosts
• Adulterer
• Arrow
• Desolate
• Heaven
• Mourn
• Perish
• Teach
• Wait
• Burial

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