Jeremiah 9:17-21
English Standard Version
17 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
(A)“Consider, and call for the mourning women to come;
send for the skillful women to come;
18 let them make haste (B)and raise a wailing over us,
(C)that our eyes may run down with tears
and our eyelids flow with water.
19 For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
(D)‘How we are ruined!
We are utterly shamed,
because we have left the land,
because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
20 Hear, O women, the word of the Lord,
and let your ear receive the word of his mouth;
teach to your daughters a lament,
and each to her neighbor a dirge.
21 For death has come up into our windows;
it has entered our palaces,
(E)cutting off the children from the streets
and the young men from the squares.
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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