¹⁷ 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:

²⁵ Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

⁵ Yes, they shall be afraid of heights, And terrors will be in the way; And the almond tree shall blossom, And the grasshopper shall be a burden, And desire shall fail; Because man goes to his everlasting home, And the mourners go about the streets:

⁸ Let them curse it who curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

¹⁶ Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the Lord: "Wailing will be in all the broad ways; And they will say in all the streets, 'Alas! Alas!' And they will call the farmer to mourning, And those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.

¹⁷ In all vineyards there will be wailing; For I will pass through the midst of you," says Yahweh.

²³ When Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the flute players, and the crowd in noisy disorder,

³⁸ He came to the synagogue ruler's house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing.