Jeremiah 9:18
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.In other versions
and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
ASV
Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.
BBE
and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids pour forth waters.
DBY
and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
WEB
And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow.
YLT
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
ENG
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
WBT
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.
BSB
In context
16I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
17Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
18And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
20Yet 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.