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

¹⁷ Thus saith the Lord of hosts: “Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for skillful women, that they may come.

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