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

¹ Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle? And with a rope thou lettest down -- his tongue?

¹⁰ None so fierce that he doth awake him, And who `is' he before Me stationeth himself?

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.

²⁵ From his rising are the mighty afraid, From breakings they keep themselves free.

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,

¹⁸ And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow.

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 saying, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance, we lamented to you, and ye did not smite the breast.

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