17 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Take heed, and call for [a]the mourning women, that they may come, and send for skillful women, that they may come,

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:17 Seeing you cannot lament your own sins, call for those foolish women, whom of a superstition you have to lament for the dead, that they by their feigned tears may provoke you to some sorrow.

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