⁴ How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land?

⁴ A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;

¹² And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:

²¹ Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?

¹⁴ The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.

¹⁵ The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.

⁴ They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord.

³ And the songs of the king's house will be cries of pain in that day, says the Lord God: great will be the number of the dead bodies, and everywhere they will put them out without a word.