Jeremiah 9:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skilful women to come;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skillful women to come.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilful women, that they may come:

Common English Bible

¹⁷ The LORD of heavenly forces proclaims: Pay attention! Summon the women who mourn, let them come; send for those best trained, let them come.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: "Consider and call upon the women mourners, and let them approach. And send to those women who are wise, and let them hurry.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that are wise women, and let them make haste:

Jeremiah 9:17 Cross References

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.

Job 3:8

Let those curse it who curse the day, who are skilled to rouse up Leviathan.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails; because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets;

Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off your hair and cast it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.’

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord has become like an enemy, he has destroyed Israel; he has destroyed all its palaces, laid in ruins its strongholds; and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Ezekiel 27:2

“Now you, son of man, raise a lamentation over Tyre,

Ezekiel 32:16

This is a lamentation which shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they chant it, says the Lord God.”

Amos 5:1

Hear this word which I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:

Micah 2:4

In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you, and wail with bitter lamentation, and say, “We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! Among our captors he divides our fields.”

Matthew 9:23

And when Jesus came to the ruler's house, and saw the flute players, and the crowd making a tumult,

Mark 5:38

When they came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, he saw a tumult, and people weeping and wailing loudly.