Jeremiah 9:17-22 Thus said Yahweh of Hosts:Consider you, and call for mourning women, And they come, And to the wise women send, and they come,

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁷ Thus said Yahweh of Hosts:Consider you, and call for mourning women, And they come, And to the wise women send, and they come, ¹⁸ And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow." ¹⁹ For--a voice of wailing is heard from Zion:How have we been spoiled! We have been greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because they have cast down our tabernacles." ²⁰ But hear, you women, a word of Yahweh, And your ear receives a word of His mouth, And teach you your daughters wailing, and each her neighbor lamentation." ²¹ For death has come up into our windows, It has come into our palaces, To cut off the suckling from without, Young men from the broad places." ²² Speak thus--an affirmation of Yahweh, And fallen has the carcase of man, As dung on the face of the field, And as a handful after the reaper, And there is none gathering."