Jeremiah 9:17

New King James Version

Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider and call for the mourning women, That they may come; And send for skillful wailing women, That they may come.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:5

Also they are afraid of height, And of terrors in the way; When the almond tree blossoms, The grasshopper is a burden, And desire fails. For man goes to his eternal home, And the mourners go about the streets.

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah also lamented for Josiah. And to this day all the singing men and the singing women speak of Josiah in their lamentations. They made it a custom in Israel; and indeed they are written in the Laments.

Mark 5:38

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

Job 3:8

May those curse it who curse the day, Those who are ready to arouse Leviathan.

Matthew 9:23

When Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the flute players and the noisy crowd wailing,

Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off your hair and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the desolate heights; for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord was 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, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre,

Ezekiel 32:16

“This is the lamentation With which they shall lament her; The daughters of the nations shall lament her; They shall lament for her, for Egypt, And for all her multitude,” Says the Lord God.’ ”

Amos 5:1

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

Micah 2:4

In that day one shall take up a proverb against you, And lament with a bitter lamentation, saying: ‘We are utterly destroyed! He has changed the heritage of my people; How He has removed it from me! To a turncoat He has divided our fields.’ ”