Jeremiah 9:20

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

“We ask you women to pay attention to what the LORD says. We will teach you a funeral song that you can teach your daughters and friends:

Cross References

Job 22:22

Listen to his teachings and take them to heart.

Isaiah 3:16

The LORD says: The women of Jerusalem are proud and strut around, winking shamelessly. They wear anklets that jingle and call attention to the way they walk.

Isaiah 3:4

He will let children and babies become your rulers.

Jeremiah 14:16

And everyone who listens to them will be killed, just as they deserve. Their dead bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, because their families will also be dead, and no one will be left to bury them.

Jeremiah 23:16

Don't listen to the lies of these false prophets, you people of Judah! The message they preach is something they imagined; it did not come from me, the LORD All-Powerful.

Jeremiah 23:28

Their dreams and my truth are as different as straw and wheat. But when prophets speak for me, they must say only what I have told them.

Jeremiah 6:11

Your anger against Judah flames up inside me, and I can't hold it in much longer. Don't hold back my anger! Let it sweep away everyone— the children at play and all adults, young and old alike.

Jeremiah 7:29

Shave your head bald and throw away the hair. Sing a funeral song on top of a barren hill. You people have made me angry, and I have abandoned you.

Jeremiah 8:2

who loved and worshipped the sun, moon, and stars. These bones will be scattered and left lying on the ground like rubbish, where the sun and moon and stars can shine on them.

Jeremiah 9:12

I said to the LORD, “None of us can understand why the land has become like an uncrossable desert. Won't you explain why?”

Lamentations 2:19

Get up and pray for help all through the night. Pour out your feelings to the Lord, as you would pour water out of a jug. Beg him to save your people, who are starving to death at every street crossing.

Lamentations 2:21

My people, both young and old, lie dead in the streets. Because you were angry, my young men and women were brutally slaughtered.