Jeremiah 9:19 meaning and explanation
For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”
Jeremiah 9:19, Berean Standard Bible
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Jeremiah has just called for professional mourning women to lament (verses 17 to 18), and verse 19 gives the cry they are to take up. The voice is Zion's, that is Jerusalem personified, speaking as the city and its people after the Babylonians have torn down their dwellings.
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