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16 I will scatter them among nations that they and their fathers have not known, and I will pursue them with the sword until I have destroyed them. 17 This is what the Lord of Armies says.

Consider this, and call for the wailing women.

Send for those who are the most skilled.

The People Mourn[a]

18 They should hurry and sob over us.
Our eyes will run with tears.
Our eyelids will stream with water.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:18 In these chapters the warnings of the Lord and the responses of the people are interwoven in such a way that it is sometimes difficult to separate them.