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

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!” 17“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.” For 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. 20For death has climbed through our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off children from the street and young men from the squares.”

Jeremiah 9:18 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• 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 9:10“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair for jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a wasteland without inhabitant.
• Jeremiah 9:1If only I had a travelers’ lodging place in the wilderness, then I might leave my people and get away from them! For they are all adulterers, a bunch of traitors.
• Jeremiah 6:26“Daughter of My people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn as for an only son with bitter lamentation.” “For suddenly the destroyer will come on us!”
• Jeremiah 13:17But if you will not listen, my soul will sob in secret before such pride, and my eyes will weep bitterly and overflow with tears, for Adonai’s flock will be taken captive.
• Jeremiah 14:17You will say this word to them: “Let my eyes overflow with tears. Night and day, may they never stop. For the virgin daughter of my people is crushed with a great blow, with a sorely infected wound.”
• Isaiah 22:4Therefore I said, “Look away from me! Let me weep bitterly— don’t try to comfort me about the ruin of the daughter of my people.”
• Lamentations 1:2Bitterly she weeps in the night, her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers, there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her. They have become her enemies!
• Lamentations 2:11My eyes are filled with tears. My stomach is in torment. My heart is poured out on the ground over the destruction of the daughter of my people— as young children and infants languish in the city squares.
• Luke 19:41As He drew near and saw Jerusalem, He wept over her,

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