Jeremiah 9:17-22
New International Version - UK
17 This is what the Lord Almighty says:
‘Consider now! Call for the wailing women to come;
send for the most skilful of them.
18 Let them come quickly
and wail over us
till our eyes overflow with tears
and water streams from our eyelids.
19 The sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
“How ruined 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.
Teach your daughters how to wail;
teach one another a lament.
21 Death has climbed in through our windows
and has entered our fortresses;
it has removed the children from the streets
and the young men from the public squares.
22 Say, ‘This is what the Lord declares:
‘“Dead bodies will lie
like dung on the open field,
like cut corn behind the reaper,
with no one to gather them.”’
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