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Jeremiah 9:16-18
Contemporary English Version
Jeremiah 9:16-18
Contemporary English Version
16 I'll scatter them in foreign countries that they and their ancestors have never even heard of. Finally, I will send enemy soldiers to kill every last one of them.
The Women Who Are Paid To Weep
17 The Lord All-Powerful said,
“Make arrangements now
for the women who are paid
to weep at funerals,[a]
especially the women
who can cry the loudest.”
18 The people answered,
“Let them come quickly
and cry for us,
until our own eyes
are flooded with tears.
Footnotes
- 9.17 women … weep at funerals: Or “the women who weep for Baal”; the god Baal was believed to have died and come back to life, and some women would go to places of worship and weep over the death of Baal.
Jeremiah 9:16-18
New International Version
Jeremiah 9:16-18
New International Version
16 I will scatter them among nations(A) that neither they nor their ancestors have known,(B) and I will pursue them with the sword(C) until I have made an end of them.”(D)
17 This is what the Lord Almighty says:
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