Jeremiah 9:17

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skilful 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 an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.

Job 3:8

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

Ecclesiastes 12:5

they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails; because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets;

Jeremiah 7:29

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

Ezekiel 27:2

“Now you, son of man, raise a lamentation over Tyre,

Ezekiel 32:16

This is a lamentation which shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they chant it, says the Lord God.”

Amos 5:1

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

Micah 2:4

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

Matthew 9:23

And when Jesus came to the ruler's house, and saw the flute players, and the crowd making a tumult,

Mark 5:38

When they came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, he saw a tumult, and people weeping and wailing loudly.