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Jeremiah 9:17,18

"There are in every city and community women exceedingly cunning in this business.… When a fresh company of sympathisers comes in, these women -make haste" to -take up a wailing" that the newly come may the more easily unite their tears with the mourners. They know the domestic history of each person, and immediately strike up an impromptu lamentation, in which they introduce the names of their relations who have recently died, touching some tender chord in every heart." Thomson, p. 103, and see Jeremiah 16:5.

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See also Jeremiah 9:17,18 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 9:17. _CALL FOR THE MOURNING WOMEN_] Those whose office it was to make lamentations at funerals, and to bewail the dead, for which they received _pay_. This custom continues to the pre...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three verses is now detailed at great length. Jeremiah 9:10 THE HABITATIONS I. E - the temporary encampments of the shepherds (see Jeremiah...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The prophet's complaint and Jehovah's answer (Jeremiah 9:1) _ 2. The cause of desolation and destruction (Jeremiah 9:10) 3. The call for the mourning and wailing women (Jeremiah 9:17...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    FAITHLESSNESS AND ITS RETRIBUTION: THE DIRGE OF DEATH. The humblest caravanserai would be preferable to life among these evil men, with their calumnies and the unfaithful use of power by those in auth...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THUS SAITH, &C. This (verses: Jeremiah 9:17) develops the calamity, for which this chapter gives the reason. MOURNING WOMEN.. class still hired for the purpose. Compare 2 Samuel 1:24; 2 Chronicles 35:...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    CONSIDER YE, &C.— The first lamentations for the dead consisted only in the sudden bursts of insuppressible grief, like that of David over his son Absalom, 2 Samuel 19:4. But, as men grew refined, it...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. _Death throughout the land_ (Jeremiah 9:17-22) TRANSLATION (17) Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider and call for the mourning women that they might come and unto the wise women send that they mi...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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: MOURNING WOMEN - hired to heighten lamentation by pla...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MOURNING WOMEN] professionals, who with dishevelled locks and bared breasts led the loud weeping. CUNNING] skilful. 23, 24. The people have been trusting in worldly wisdom, power, and riches; but the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MOURNING WOMEN... CUNNING WOMEN. — Eastern funerals were, and are, attended by mourners, chiefly women, hired for the purpose. Wailing was reduced to an art, and they who practised it were cunning. Th...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Jeremiah 9:16]_ כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָאֹ֔ות הִתְבֹּֽונְנ֛וּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In answer to his own question, Jeremiah sighed for some adequate means of expressing the anguish of his heart, and then for escape to some lonely place in the wilderness. All this was in the nature of...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for (n) the skilful women, that they may come; and send for skilful [women], that they may come: (n) Seeing you cannot lament your own sins, call f...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Wise, in composing or singing the Nænia, or mournful songs, recording the praises of the deceased. (Calmet) --- "This custom still subsists in Judea: women go about with dishevelled hair and naked br...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Perhaps these mourning women means true weepers, and the cunning women those which were counterfeit. And the counterfeit would have found cause to change their cries into real sorrow, had they foresee...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    In this passage, as in many others, the Prophet endeavors by a striking representation really to touch the hearts of his people, for he saw that they were extremely refractory, insensible, and secure....

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, CONSIDER YE,.... The punishment that was just coming upon them, as Kimchi; or the words that the Lord was about to say unto them; as follows: AND CALL FOR THE MOURNING W...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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: Ver. 17. _Consider ye._] _Intelligentes estote._ Is n...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Consider ye, and call for the mourning women_ Consider the evil circumstances you are in, which call for mourning and lamentation: and since you yourselves are not sufficiently affected with the dang...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye and call for the mourning women, those hired to give expression to their grief by plaintive cries and a general mournful behavior, found also in the New Testa...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-22 In Zion the voice of joy and praise used to be heard, while the people kept close to God; but sin has altered the sound, it is now the voice of lamentation. Unhumbled hearts lament their calami...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    CONSIDER YE; either in how sad a condition you are, what circumstances you are under; or rather, bethink yourselves what course to take: and therefore he puts them upon mourning and bewailing their co...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 9:17 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 Consider H995 (H8708) call H7121 (H8798) women...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THOSE WHO ARE TRULY WISE WILL KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD AND WILL THUS UNDERSTAND WHY HE ACTS LIKE HE DOES IN BRINGING FINAL JUDGMENT ON JUDAH (JEREMIAH 9:12). The passage commences by asking who the tr...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 9:1. _Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!_ Jeremiah foresaw that the Chaldeans would c...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Detestation of the sins of the people. The vanity of trusting in anything but God. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those who will not know God...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 9:2. _Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodgingplace of wayfaring men._ In countries where the peasantry are very poor, travellers provide for themselves as they can. Even in Spain many of th...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. For Chronology and History, see chap. 7. 1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 9:26. “_Egypt_.” sit. on N.E. angle of Africa; a vast plain; in general features it may be...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 9:1 The Hebrew more correctly attaches this verse to Jeremiah 8:1. OH THAT MY HEAD WERE WATERS, etc.! A quaint conceit, it may be said. But "if we have been going on pace for pace...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Jeremiah declares, Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes were as a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Oh that I had in the wildernes...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 35:25; Amos 5:16; Amos 5:17; Ecclesiastes 12:5; Job 3:8;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Women — Who were hired to tear their hair, and beat their breasts, with other mourning postures, a foolish custom which has obtained in most ages and countries. Cunning — Such as are most skilful in i...

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