Jeremiah 9:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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 a custom in Israel; they are recorded in the Laments.

Job 3:8

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

Ecclesiastes 12:5

when one is afraid of heights, and terrors are in the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper bud falls; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will go about the streets;

Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off your hair and throw it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation that provoked 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 multiplied in daughter Judah mourning and lamentation.

Ezekiel 27:2

Now you, mortal, raise a lamentation over Tyre,

Ezekiel 32:16

This is a lamentation; it shall be chanted. The women of the nations shall chant it. Over Egypt and all its hordes they shall chant it, says the Lord God.

Amos 5:1

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

Micah 2:4

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

Matthew 9:23

When Jesus came to the leader’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion,

Mark 5:38

When they came to the synagogue leader’s house, he saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.