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


In Context

15 Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing them — this people — to eat wormwood, And I have caused them to drink water of gall,

16 And I have scattered them among nations Which they knew not, they and their fathers, And have sent after them the sword, Till I have consumed them.

17 Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Consider ye, and call for mourning women, And they come, And to the wise women send, and they come,

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

19 For — a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: How have we been spoiled! We have been greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because they have cast down our tabernacles.

20 But hear, ye women, a word of Jehovah, And your ear receiveth a word of His mouth, And teach ye your daughters wailing, and each her neighbour 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 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 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.