“Let them make hasteand take up a wailing for us,that our eyes may run down with tearsand our eyelids gush out with waters.”
Jeremiah 9:18 (WEB)
Context Reading
16I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.” 17Yahweh of Armies says,“Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come.Send for the skillful women, that they may come. 18Let them make hasteand take up a wailing for us,that our eyes may run down with tearsand our eyelids gush out with waters. 19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion,‘How we are ruined!We are greatly confoundedbecause we have forsaken the land,because they have cast down our dwellings.’” 20Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women.Let your ear receive the word of his mouth.Teach your daughters wailing.Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.