Jeremiah 9:20 Cross References - NSB

²⁰ Listen to the word of Jehovah, you women, and open your ears to hear his words. Teach your daughters how to cry. Teach your neighbors funeral songs.

²² »Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

⁴ I will make boys their leaders. Childish tyrants will govern them.

¹⁶ Jehovah also said: »Because the daughters of Zion are proud and walk with heads held high and seductive eyes, and go along with mincing steps and tinkle the bangles on their feet,

⁹ Rise up, you women who are at ease. Hear my voice and pay attention to my word, you complacent daughters. ¹⁰ Within a year and some days you will be troubled, O complacent women for the vintage is ended, the fruit gathering will not happen. ¹¹ Tremble you women who are at ease. Be troubled you complacent ones. Undress and put sackcloth on your waist, ¹² Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine, ¹³ For the land of my people where thorns and briars will grow for they are on the delightful houses and the exultant city.

¹⁷ »Jehovah of Hosts says: ‘Consider the mourning women that they may come. Send for the wailing women that they may come! ¹⁸ Let them hurry and take up a wailing for us. Let our eyes shed tears and our eyelids flow with water.

²⁷ A great crowd of people followed. Many women cried and grieved over him. ²⁸ Jesus turned to them and said: »Daughters of Jerusalem do not weep for me but weep for yourselves and for your children. ²⁹ »The days are coming when they will say blessed are the barren those without children and the breasts that never nursed. ³⁰ »Then they will say to the mountains fall on us and to the hills cover us.