Jeremiah 9:12-22

12Who is a wise man, that he may understand this? and he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land perished, burnt 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 hearkened unto my voice, nor walked in it,

14but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them;

15therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the 1God of Israel, Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink,

16and will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.

17Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come, and send for the skilful women, that they may come;

18and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids pour forth waters.

19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled, sorely put to shame! For we have forsaken the land, for they have cast down our dwellings.

20Hear then the word of Jehovah, ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and each one her companion lamentation.

21For death is come up through our windows, is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from the street, the young men from the broadways.

22Speak, Thus saith Jehovah: Yea, the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the reaper, and there shall be none to gather.