Jeremiah 9:17-22

Amplified Bible

“Consider and call for the mourning women to come;
Send for the wailing women to come.
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“Let them hurry and take up a wailing for us,
That our eyes may shed tears
And our eyelids flow with water.
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“For a sound of wailing is heard [coming] from Zion:
‘How we are ruined!
We are greatly perplexed and utterly shamed,
Because we have left the land,
Because they have torn down our dwellings.’”
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Now hear the word of the Lord, O you women,
And let your ear hear the word of His mouth;
Teach your daughters a song of mourning,
And each one [teach] her neighbor a dirge.
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For death has come up through our windows;
It has entered our palaces,
Cutting off the children from the streets
And the young men from the town squares.
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Speak, “Thus says the Lord,
‘The dead bodies of men will fall like dung on the open field,
And like sheaves [of grain] behind the reaper,
And no one will gather them.’”^(A)