King James Version
Jeremiah 9:18 in the King James Version says “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 w...” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 9 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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.”
Jeremiah 9:18 · KJV
I 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.
Thus 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:
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.
For 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.
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And let them make haste”
H4116properly, to be liquid or flow easily, i.e., (by implication)
“and take up”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“may run down”
H3381to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); cau
“for us that our eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
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