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Jeremiah Chapter 9 verse 18 Holy Bible

ASV 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.
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BBE Jeremiah 9:18

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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DARBY 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 pour forth waters.
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KJV 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.
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WBT Jeremiah 9:18

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WEB 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.
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YLT Jeremiah 9:18

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.