“Consider now! Call for the wailing women^(A) to come;
    send for the most skillful of them.

¹⁰ I will weep and wail for the mountains
    and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands.^(A)
They are desolate and untraveled,
    and the lowing of cattle is not heard.
The birds^(B) have all fled
    and the animals are gone.

⁴ In that day people will ridicule you;
    they will taunt you with this mournful song:
‘We are utterly ruined;^(A)
    my people’s possession is divided up.^(B)
He takes it from me!
    He assigns our fields to traitors.’”

“There will be wailing^(A) in all the streets^(B)
    and cries of anguish in every public square.
The farmers^(C) will be summoned to weep
    and the mourners to wail.