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.


In Context

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

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 Other Translations

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:18Let them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters.

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.