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Jeremiah 9:19 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 9 · verse 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.Jeremiah 9:19 · King James Version
Jeremiah 9:19 in context
17Thus 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:
18And 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.
19For 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.
20Yet 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.
21For 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
Key words (Strong's)
- confoundedbûwshproperly, to paleH954 →
- dwellingsmishkâna residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the graveH4908 →
- forsakenʻâzabto loosenH5800 →
- wailingnᵉhîyan elegyH5092 →
- spoiledshâdadproperly, to be burlyH7703 →
- greatlymᵉʼôdproperly, vehemenceH3966 →
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Two things the prophet designs, in these verses, with reference to the approaching destruction of Judah and Jerusalem: - 1. To convince people of the justice of God in it, that they had by sin brought it upon themselves and that therefore they had no reason to quarrel with God, who did them no wrong at all, but a…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-22