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 says Yahweh of Armies, 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 nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.

17 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful 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 ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

20 Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.

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 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 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.