Jeremiah 9:20 “Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of…”

Jeremiah 9:20

Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.

World English Bible

Yet hear the LORD’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.

American Standard Version

Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore heare the worde of the Lord, O ye women, and let your eares regard the words of his mouth, and teach your daughters to mourne, and euery one her neighbour to lament.

Darby Translation

Hear then the word of Jehovah, ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and each one her companion lamentation.

Young's Literal Translation

But hear, ye women, a word of Jehovah, And your ear receiveth a word of His mouth, And teach ye your daughters wailing, and each her neighbour lamentation.

Bible in Basic English

But even now, give ear to the word of the Lord, O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief.

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Cross references

“hear”

Luke 23:27–30 Isaiah 32:9–13 Isaiah 3:16–4

Luke 23:27–30 · BSB

A great number of people followed Him, including women who kept mourning and wailing for Him.

Isaiah 32:9–13 · BSB

Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.

Isaiah 3:16–4 · BSB

The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty— walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—

“receive”

Job 22:22

Job 22:22 · BSB

Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

“and teach”

Jeremiah 9:17 Jeremiah 9:18

Jeremiah 9:17 · BSB

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.

Jeremiah 9:18 · BSB

Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.

Also

Isaiah 3:4

Isaiah 3:4 · BSB

“I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”

21For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

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