💧WEB · Jeremiah 9:17
What does Jeremiah 9:17 mean?
"Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come."
— Jeremiah 9:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”
Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
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.”
Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come.
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.
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.’”
Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.
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