Jeremiah 9:17-25

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.

23“‘This is what the Lord says: The wise person should not boast in his wisdom; the strong should not boast in his strength; the wealthy should not boast in his wealth.

24But the one who boasts should boast in this: that he understands and knows me  — that I am the Lord, showing faithful love, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for I delight in these things. This is the Lord’s declaration.

25“‘Look, the days are coming — this is the Lord’s declaration — when I will punish all the circumcised yet uncircumcised: