Jeremiah Chapter 9 verse 18 Holy Bible
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.
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Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - That our eyes may run down, etc.; a justification of this artificial system-The piercing notes of the hired mourners are to relieve the sorrow of the afflicted by forcing for it a vent.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) Take up a wailing for us.--There is in all such figures of speech an inevitable blending of metaphors. The mourners wail for the dead nation, and yet the members of the nation are sharers in the obsequies, and their eyes run down with tears.