^{17 Ref} Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Consider you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful 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 Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone 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 outside, [and] the young men from the streets.

^{22 Ref} Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather [them].