Jeremiah 9:18

World English Bible (WEB)

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.

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16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”

17 The LORD of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come.

18 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 we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’”

20 Yet hear the LORD’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.

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Jeremiah 9:18 in every translation

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.
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.
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.