Jeremiah 9 · Verse 18

Jeremiah 9:18

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.
Jeremiah 9:18, King James Version

Jeremiah 9:18 in other translations

BSBLet them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.
WEBLet 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.
ASVand 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.
YLTAnd they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow.
DARBYand 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.
BBELet them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.
WebsterAnd 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.

What does Jeremiah 9:18 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
18. (Jr 14:17).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 9:12-22

In Zion the voice of joy and praise used to be heard, while the people kept close to God; but sin has altered the sound, it is now the voice of lamentation. Unhumbled hearts lament their calamity, but not their sin, which is the cause of it. Let the doors be shut ever so fast, death steals upon us. It enters the palaces of princes and great men, though stately, strongly built, and guarded. Nor are those more safe…

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Jeremiah 9:18 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וּתְמַהֵ֕רְנָהu.te.ma.He.re.nahand they may hastenH4116
וְתִשֶּׂ֥נָהve.ti.Se.nahand they may take upH5375
עָלֵ֖ינוּ'a.Lei.nuon usH5921
נֶ֑הִיNe.hiwailingH5092
וְתֵרַ֤דְנָהve.te.Rad.nahso they may run downH3381
עֵינֵ֙ינוּ֙'ei.Nei.nueyes ourH5869
דִּמְעָ֔הdim.'Ahtear[s]H1832
וְעַפְעַפֵּ֖ינוּve.'af.'a.Pei.nuand eyelids ourH6079
יִזְּלוּ\־yi.ze.lu-they may flowH5140
מָֽיִם\׃Ma.yimwaterH4325

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Jeremiah 9:18

  • Jeremiah 9:1

    Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

  • Isaiah 22:4

    Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

  • Jeremiah 14:17

    Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

  • Jeremiah 9:20

    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.

  • Lamentations 2:11

    Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

  • Lamentations 2:18

    Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

  • Lamentations 1:2

    She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

  • Jeremiah 6:26

    O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

  • Jeremiah 9:10

    For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

  • Jeremiah 13:17

    But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock is carried away captive.

  • Luke 19:41

    And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
take.
10,20
our eyes.
1; 6:26; 13:17; 14:17; Isa 22:4; La 1:2; 2:11,18; Lu 19:41

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Context

  • Jeremiah 9:17

    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:

  • Jeremiah 9:18

    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.

  • Jeremiah 9:19

    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.

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Jeremiah 9:18 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y dense prisa, y levanten llanto sobre nosotros, y córranse nuestros ojos en lágrimas, y nuestros párpados en aguas se destilen.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Car une voix de lamentation se fait entendre de Sion: Comme nous sommes détruits, et devenus fort honteux! car nous avons abandonné le pays, car ils ont jeté à bas nos demeures.
German
Elberfelder 1871
und eilends eine Wehklage über uns erheben, damit unsere Augen von Tränen rinnen und unsere Wimpern von Wasser fließen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
festinent, et assumant super nos lamentum: deducant oculi nostri lacrimas, et palpebræ nostræ defluant aquis.