15 Therefore thus hath the Lord of the hosts the God of Israel said: Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them water of gall to drink.
16 I will scatter them also among Gentiles whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them.
17 Thus hath the Lord of the hosts said, Consider ye and call for the mourning women that they may come and send for cunning 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.
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we destroyed! We are greatly confounded. Why have we forsaken the land? Why have our dwellings cast us out?
20 Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth and teach your daughters wailing and each one her neighbour lamentation.
21 For death is come up into our windows and is entered into our palaces to cut off the children from without and the young men from the streets.