Jeremiah 9:18
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.
In context
16 I 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.
17 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:
18 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.
19 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.
20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, 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 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- 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.
- WEB World English Bible
- 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow.
- DBY Darby Translation
- and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids pour forth waters.
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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.