Jeremiah 9:18
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Let them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters.

take.

Jeremiah 9:10,20 For the mountains I will take up weeping and lamentation, and for the beautiful places of the desert, mourning: because they are burnt up, for that there is not a man that passeth through them: and they have not heard the voice of the owner: from the fowl of the air to the beasts they are gone away and departed. . . .

our eyes.

Jeremiah 9:1 Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? and I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 6:26 Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and sprinkle thee with ashes: make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter lamentation, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

Jeremiah 13:17 But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down with tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive.

Jeremiah 14:17 And thou shalt speak this word to them: Let my eyes shed down tears night and day, and let them not cease, because the virgin daughter of my people is afflicted with a great affliction, with an exceeding grievous evil.

Isaiah 22:4 Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I will weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, for the devastation of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 1:2 Beth. Weeping, she hath wept in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: there is none to comfort her among all them that were dear to her: all her friends have despised her, and are become her enemies.

Lamentations 2:11,18 Caph. My eyes have failed with weeping, my bowels are troubled: my liver is poured out upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, when the children, and the sucklings, fainted away in the streets of the city. . . .

Luke 19:41 And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying:

Context
A Lament over Zion
17Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that are wise women, and let them make haste: 18Let them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters.19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Sion: How are we wasted and greatly confounded? because we have left the land, because our dwellings are cast down.…
Cross References
Psalm 119:136
My eyes have sent forth springs of water: because they have not kept thy law.

Isaiah 22:4
Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I will weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, for the devastation of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 7:29
Cut off thy hair, and cast it away: and take up a lamentation on high: for the Lord hath rejected, and forsaken the generation of his wrath,

Jeremiah 9:1
Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? and I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 14:17
And thou shalt speak this word to them: Let my eyes shed down tears night and day, and let them not cease, because the virgin daughter of my people is afflicted with a great affliction, with an exceeding grievous evil.

Lamentations 3:48
Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Amos 5:16
Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the sovereign Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.

Lexicon
Let them come quickly
וּתְמַהֵ֕רְנָה (ū·ṯə·ma·hê·rə·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4116: To be liquid, flow easily, to hurry, promptly

and take up
וְתִשֶּׂ֥נָה (wə·ṯiś·śe·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5375: To lift, carry, take

a lament
נֶ֑הִי (ne·hî)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5092: A wailing, lamentation, mourning song

over us,
עָלֵ֖ינוּ (‘ā·lê·nū)
Preposition | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

that our eyes
עֵינֵ֙ינוּ֙ (‘ê·nê·nū)
Noun - cdc | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 5869: An eye, a fountain

may overflow
וְתֵרַ֤דְנָה (wə·ṯê·raḏ·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3381: To come or go down, descend

with tears,
דִּמְעָ֔ה (dim·‘āh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1832: Tears (of one weeping)

and our eyelids
וְעַפְעַפֵּ֖ינוּ (wə·‘ap̄·‘ap·pê·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - mdc | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6079: An eyelash, morning ray

may stream
יִזְּלוּ־ (yiz·zə·lū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5140: To flow, trickle, drop, distill

with waters.
מָֽיִם׃ (mā·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen


Additional Translations
Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may stream with waters.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.

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.

and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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