Jeremiah 9:17-22

17This is what the Lord of Armies says: Consider, and summon the women who mourn; send for the skillful women.

18Let them come quickly to raise a lament over us so that our eyes may overflow with tears, our eyelids be soaked with weeping.

19For a sound of lamentation is heard from Zion: How devastated we are. We are greatly ashamed, for we have abandoned the land; our dwellings have been torn down.

20Now hear the word of the Lord, you women. Pay attention to the words from his mouth. Teach your daughters a lament and one another a dirge,

21for Death has climbed through our windows; it has entered our fortresses, cutting off children from the streets, young men from the squares.

22“Speak as follows: ‘This is what the Lord declares: Human corpses will fall like manure on the surface of the field, like newly cut grain after the reaper with no one to gather it.