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Jeremiah 9:20 - Compare All Versions

Jeremiah 9:20 NIV (New International Version)

Now, you women, hear the word of the LORD; open your ears to the words of his mouth. Teach your daughters how to wail; teach one another a lament.

Jeremiah 9:20 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)

Hear, O women, the word of the LORD, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a lament, and each to her neighbor a dirge.

Jeremiah 9:20 NLT (New Living Translation)

Listen, you women, to the words of the LORD; open your ears to what he has to say. Teach your daughters to wail; teach one another how to lament.

Jeremiah 9:20 CSB (Christian Standard Bible)

Now hear the word of the  LORD, you women. Pay attention to   the words from his mouth. Teach your daughters a lament and one another a dirge

Jeremiah 9:20 KJV (King James Version)

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.

Jeremiah 9:20 NKJV (New King James Version)

Yet hear the word of the LORD, O women, And let your ear receive the word of His mouth; Teach your daughters wailing, And everyone her neighbor a lamentation.

Jeremiah 9:20-21 MSG (The Message)

Mourning women! Oh, listen to GOD’s Message! Open your ears. Take in what he says. Teach your daughters songs for the dead and your friends the songs of heartbreak. Death has climbed in through the window, broken into our bedrooms. Children on the playgrounds drop dead, and young men and women collapse at their games.

Jeremiah 9:20 NASB2020 (New American Standard Bible - NASB)

Now hear the word of the LORD, you women, And let your ears receive the word of His mouth; Teach your daughters wailing, And have every woman teach her neighbor a song of mourning.

Jeremiah 9:20 AMP (Amplified Bible)

Now hear the word of the LORD, O you women, And let your ear hear the word of His mouth; Teach your daughters a song of mourning, And each one [teach] her neighbor a dirge.

Jeremiah 9:20 NET (New English Translation)

I said, “So now, you wailing women, hear what the LORD says. Open your ears to the words from his mouth. Teach your daughters this mournful song, and each of you teach your neighbor this lament.