I said, “Indeed, ¹  let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us. Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes and our eyelids overflow with water.

biblegateway Jer 9:18

"Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, That our eyes may shed tears And our eyelids flow with water.

Let them come quickly to raise a lament over us so that our eyes may overflow with tears, our eyelids soaked with weeping.

They should come quickly and cry for us. Our eyes will run with tears. Our eyelids will flow with water.

biblegateway Jer 9:18

Let them come quickly and wail over us till our eyes overflow with tears and water streams from our eyelids.

let them make haste and raise a wailing over us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids flow with water.

bibleoremus Jer 9:18

let them quickly raise a dirge over us, so that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids flow with water.

to come quickly and raise a lament for us, that our eyes may stream with tears and our eyelids be wet with weeping.

biblegateway Jer 9:18

Let them make haste And take up a wailing for us, That our eyes may run with tears, And our eyelids gush with water.

And 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.

biblegateway Jer 9:18

I said, “Indeed, ¹  let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us. Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes and our eyelids overflow with water.

¹ tn The words “And I said, ‘Indeed” are not in the text. They have been supplied in the translation to try and help clarify who the speaker is who identifies with the lament of the people.