Jeremiah 9:20
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Hear therefore, ye women, the word of the Lord: and let your ears receive the word of his mouth: and teach your daughters wailing: and every one her neighbour mourning.

hear.

Isaiah 3:16 And the Lord said: Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with stretched out necks, and wanton glances of their eyes, and made a noise as they walked with their feet and moved in a set pace:

Isaiah 32:9-13 Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice: ye confident daughters, give ear to my speech. . . .

Luke 23:27-30 And there followed him a great multitude of people and of women, who bewailed and lamented him. . . .

receive.

Job 22:22 Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

and teach.

Jeremiah 9:17,18 Thus 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: . . .

Context
A Lament over Zion
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. 20Hear therefore, ye women, the word of the Lord: and let your ears receive the word of his mouth: and teach your daughters wailing: and every one her neighbour mourning.21For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets.…
Cross References
Isaiah 32:9
Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice: ye confident daughters, give ear to my speech.

Jeremiah 9:12
Who is the wise man, that may understand this, and to whom the word of the mouth of the Lord may come that he may declare this, why the land hath perished, and is burnt up like a wilderness, which none passeth through?

Jeremiah 23:16
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, and deceive you: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:28
The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream: and he that hath my word, let him speak my word with truth: what hath the chaff to do with the wheat, saith the Lord?

Lexicon
Now,
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

O women,
נָשִׁים֙ (nā·šîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female

hear
שְׁמַ֤עְנָה (šə·ma‘·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8085: To hear intelligently

the word
דְּבַר־ (də·ḇar-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

of the LORD.
יְהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

Open
וְתִקַּ֥ח (wə·ṯiq·qaḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3947: To take

your ears
אָזְנְכֶ֖ם (’ā·zə·nə·ḵem)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 241: Broadness, the ear

to the word
דְּבַר־ (də·ḇar-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

of His mouth.
פִּ֑יו (pîw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to

Teach
וְלַמֵּ֤דְנָה (wə·lam·mê·ḏə·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Imperative - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3925: To exercise in, learn

your daughters
בְנֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ (ḇə·nō·w·ṯê·ḵem)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1323: A daughter

to wail,
נֶ֔הִי (ne·hî)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5092: A wailing, lamentation, mourning song

and one
וְאִשָּׁ֥ה (wə·’iš·šāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female

another
רְעוּתָ֖הּ (rə·‘ū·ṯāh)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7468: A female associate, an additional one

to lament.
קִינָֽה׃ (qî·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7015: An elegy, dirge


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

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.

Hear now, ye women, the word of God, and let your ears receive the words of his mouth, and teach your daughters lamentation, and every woman her neighbour a dirge.

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.

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.

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 neighbor lamentation.

Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.

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.
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