16 I will scatter them among nations(A) that neither they nor their ancestors have known,(B) and I will pursue them with the sword(C) until I have made an end of them.”(D)

17 This is what the Lord Almighty says:

“Consider now! Call for the wailing women(E) to come;
    send for the most skillful of them.
18 Let them come quickly
    and wail over us
till our eyes overflow with tears
    and water streams from our eyelids.(F)
19 The sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
    ‘How ruined(G) we are!
    How great is our shame!
We must leave our land
    because our houses are in ruins.’”

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