King James Version
What Does Jeremiah 9:19 Mean?
“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.”
Context
17
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:
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.
19
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.
20
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.
21
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(19) **We have forsaken.**—Better, *we have left. *The English version suggests a voluntary abandonment, which is not involved in the Hebrew.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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