“Consider now! Call for the wailing women^(A) to come;
    send for the most skillful of them.

“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.
¹⁷ There will be wailing^(D) in all the vineyards,
    for I will pass through^(E) your midst,”
says the Lord.^(F)

⁵ when people are afraid of heights
    and of dangers in the streets;
when the almond tree blossoms
    and the grasshopper drags itself along
    and desire no longer is stirred.
Then people go to their eternal home^(A)
    and mourners^(B) go about the streets.

⁸ May those who curse days^[a] curse that day,^(A)
    those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.^(B)