Jeremiah 9:17

Modern English Version

Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for wailing women, that they may come.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 35:25

And Jeremiah composed a dirge for Josiah, and all the male and female singers speak of Josiah in their laments to this day; and they made them a statute in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.

Job 3:8

Let them curse it who curse any day, those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

when they fear heights, even the terrors along the road; the almond tree blossoms white, and the grasshopper is burdened down, and the aphrodisiac caper-berry plant fails, because a person is going to his eternal home, and the mourners are throughout the streets;

Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off your hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord has become like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all her palaces; He has destroyed her strongholds, and has increased mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

Ezekiel 27:2

Now you, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre.

Ezekiel 32:16

This is the lamentation, and they shall chant it. The daughters of the nations shall chant it. They shall chant it over Egypt and over all her multitude, says the Lord God.

Amos 5:1

Hear this word which I take up as a dirge against you, O house of Israel:

Micah 2:4

In that day they will take up a taunt against you, and they will wail a wailing lament, and say: “We are totally ruined! He diminishes the portion of my people; how He removes it from me! To a traitor He reassigns our fields!”

Matthew 9:23

When Jesus came to the ruler’s house and saw the musicians and the mourners making a noise,

Mark 5:38

He came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and saw the tumult, and those who wept and wailed loudly.