Jeremiah 9:20 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁰ But hear the word of יהוה, O women, and let your ear receive the word of His mouth. And teach your daughters wailing, and each one her neighbour a lamentation.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Yet hear the word of the Lord, O you women, and let your ears receive the word of His mouth; teach your daughters a lament, and each one [teach] her neighbor a dirge.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Women, hear the LORD’s word. Listen closely to the word from his mouth: teach your daughters to mourn; teach each other to grieve.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ "Therefore, listen, O women, to the word of the Lord! And let your ears take up the word of his mouth. And teach your daughters to lament. And let each one teach her neighbor to mourn:

Jeremiah 9:20 Cross References

Job 22:22

Please accept the Torah from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

Isaiah 3:16

And יהוה  says, “Because the daughters of Tsiyon are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and seductive eyes, walking and mincing as they go, making a jingling with their feet,

Isaiah 3:4

“And I shall make youths their heads, and children shall rule over them.

Jeremiah 14:16

‘And the people to whom they are prophesying shall be thrown out in the streets of Yerushalayim because of the scarcity of food and the sword, with no one to bury them – them nor their wives, their sons nor their daughters. For I shall pour their evil on them.’

Jeremiah 23:16

Thus said יהוה  of hosts, “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, they lead you astray. They speak a vision of their own heart, not from the mouth of יהוה.

Jeremiah 23:28

“The prophet who has a dream, let him relate the dream, and he who has My Word, let him speak My Word in truth. What is the chaff to the wheat?” declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 6:11

Therefore I am filled with the wrath of יהוה. I have become weary of containing it. “Pour it out on the children outside, and on the company of young men together, for even husband and wife shall be taken, the aged and the very old.

Jeremiah 7:29

‘Cut off your hair and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights, for יהוה  has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’

Jeremiah 8:2

and shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of the heavens, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked, which they have sought, and to which they have bowed themselves. They shall not be gathered nor buried, they shall be for dung on the face of the earth.

Jeremiah 9:12

Who is the wise man, that he understands this? And to whom has the mouth of יהוה  spoken, that he declares it? Why has the land perished, has it been burned up like a wilderness, with none passing through?

Lamentations 2:19

“Arise, cry out in the night, At the beginning of the watches, Pour out your heart like water Before the face of יהוה. Lift your hands toward Him For the life of your young children, Who languish from hunger At the head of every street.

Lamentations 2:21

“Young and old lie on the ground in the streets. My maidens and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your displeasure, You have slaughtered without compassion.