^{17 Ref} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilful women, that they may come:

^{18 Ref} and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

^{19 Ref} For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

^{20 Ref} Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.

^{21 Ref} For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, `and' the young men from the streets.