¹⁷ This is what the Lord All-Powerful says:
    “Now think about these things!
Call for the women who get paid to cry at funerals.
    Send for the people who are good at that job.
¹⁸ The people say,
‘Let those women come quickly
    and cry for us.
Then our eyes will fill with tears
    that flow over our eyelids like streams of water.’

¹⁹ “The sound of loud crying is heard from Zion:
‘We are really ruined!
    We are so ashamed!
We must leave our land,
    because our houses have been destroyed.
    Now our houses are only piles of rock.’”