Consider, and summon the women who mourn;^(A)
send for the skillful women.
¹⁸ Let them come quickly to raise a lament over us
so that our eyes may overflow with tears,
our eyelids soaked with weeping.

There will be wailing in all the public squares;^(A)
they will cry out in anguish^[a] in all the streets.
The farmer will be called on to mourn,^(B)
and professional mourners^[b](C) to wail.