“‘You were the seal of perfection,
    full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.^(B)

“Consider now! Call for the wailing women^(A) 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.^(B)
19 The sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
    ‘How ruined^(C) we are!
    How great is our shame!
We must leave our land
    because our houses are in ruins.’”

²⁰ Now, you women, hear the word of the Lord;
    open your ears to the words of his mouth.^(D)
Teach your daughters how to wail;
    teach one another a lament.^(E)

¹⁰ I will weep and wail for the mountains
    and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands.^(A)
They are desolate and untraveled,
    and the lowing of cattle is not heard.
The birds^(B) have all fled
    and the animals are gone.

“There will be wailing^(A) in all the streets^(B)
    and cries of anguish in every public square.
The farmers^(C) will be summoned to weep
    and the mourners to wail.

“‘You are like a lion^(B) among the nations;
    you are like a monster^(C) in the seas^(D)
thrashing about in your streams,
    churning the water with your feet
    and muddying the streams.^(E)

³² As they wail and mourn over you,
    they will take up a lament^(A) concerning you:
“Who was ever silenced like Tyre,
    surrounded by the sea?^(B)”