¹⁶ Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot:
    “Pay attention! Call the dirge-singers and let them come.
    Send for the most skillful wailers and let them come!”
¹⁷ “Let them come quickly
        and lift up a wailing over us
    so our eyes may run down with tears
        and our eyelids gush with water.”
¹⁸ For a wailing voice is heard from Zion:
        “How we are ruined!
        We are utterly ashamed—
        we have forsaken the land,
        for they tore down our dwellings.”