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So says Jehovah of Hosts, Consider and call for the wailers, that they may come. And send for the wise women , that they may come.

And let them make haste and take up a lament over us, so that our eyes may run down with tears, and waters flow from our eyelids.

For the voice of lament is heard from Zion. How we are ravaged! We are greatly ashamed because we have forsaken the land; because they have thrown down our dwellings.

Yet hear the Word of Jehovah, women. And let your ear receive the Word of His mouth, and teach your daughters a lament, and each one her neighbor a dirge.

For death has come into our windows, entering into our fortresses, to cut off the children from the street, the young men from the plazas.

Speak, So says Jehovah, Even the bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the swath after the reaper, and no one shall gather them .