Jeremiah 9:12-22

12Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? wherefore is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through? 13And Jehovah saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein, 14but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them; 15therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. 16I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will sendH7971 the sword after them, till I have consumed them.

17Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may comeH3381; and send for the skilful women, that they may comeH3381: 18and let them makeH8085 haste, and take up a wailingH5092 for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. 19For a voice of wailingH5092 is heardH8085 out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings. 20Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation. 21For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, and the young menH120 from the streets. 22Speak, ThusH3541 saith Jehovah, The dead bodies of menH1368 shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman; and none shall gather them.