¹⁷ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Consider ye, and call for mourning women, And they come, And to the wise women send, and they come,

²⁵ and Jeremiah lamenteth for Josiah, and all the singers and the songstresses speak in their lamentations of Josiah unto this day, and set them for a statute on Israel, and lo, they are written beside the lamentations.

⁵ Also of that which is high they are afraid, And of the low places in the way, And the almond-tree is despised, And the grasshopper is become a burden, And want is increased, For man is going unto his home age-during, And the mourners have gone round through the street.

⁸ Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan.

¹⁶ Therefore, thus said Jehovah, God of Hosts, the Lord, In all broad places `is' lamentation, And in all out-places they say, `Alas, alas,' And called the husbandman to mourning, And to lamentation the skilful of wailing.

¹⁷ And in all vineyards `is' lamentation, For I pass into thy midst, said Jehovah.

²³ And Jesus having come to the house of the ruler, and having seen the minstrels and the multitude making tumult,

³⁸ and he cometh to the house of the chief of the synagogue, and seeth a tumult, much weeping and wailing;