18Let them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters.


In Context

15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

16 And I will scatter them among the nations, which they and their fathers have not known: and I will send the sword after them till they be consumed.

17 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that are wise women, and let them make haste:

18 Let them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters.

19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Sion: How are we wasted and greatly confounded? because we have left the land, because our dwellings are cast down.

20 Hear therefore, ye women, the word of the Lord: and let your ears receive the word of his mouth: and teach your daughters wailing: and every one her neighbor mourning.

Jeremiah 9:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:18And 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:18Let them come quickly and wail over us till our eyes overflow with tears and water streams from our eyelids.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:18and 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:18and 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:18and 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:18And 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:18and 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:18And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:18And 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.