17 David sang the following lament(A) for Saul and his son Jonathan,

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25 Jeremiah chanted a dirge(A) over Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women still speak of Josiah in their dirges to this very day. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Dirges.

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Mourning over Judah

17 This is what the Lord of Hosts says:

Consider, and summon the women who mourn;(A)
send for the skillful women.

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17 Then they will lament(A) for you and say of you:

How you have perished, city of renown,
you who were populated from the seas![a]
She who was powerful on the sea,
she and all of her inhabitants
inflicted their terror.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 26:17 Some LXX mss read How you were destroyed from the seas, city of renown!
  2. Ezekiel 26:17 Lit and all her inhabitants who put their terror on all her inhabitants; Hb obscure

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