18 And let them make haste, and let them take up a lamentation for us, that our eyes may cast out tears, and our eyelids gush out of water.

19 For a lamentable noise is heard out of Zion, How are we destroyed, and utterly confounded, for we have forsaken the land, and our dwellings [a]have cast us out.

20 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ears regard the words of his mouth, and [b]teach your daughters to mourn, and everyone her neighbor to lament.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:19 As though they were weary of us, because of our iniquities, Lev. 18:28 and 20:22.
  2. Jeremiah 9:20 He derideth the superstition of the women which made an art of mourning, and taught to weep with feigned tears.

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