16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them.
17 Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come;and send for wailing women, that they may come.
18 And let them make hasteand take up a wailing for us,that our eyes may run down with tearsand our eyelids gush out with waters.
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion,“How devastated we are!We are greatly humiliated,because we have forsaken the land,because our dwellings have cast us out.”
20 Yet hear the word of the Lord, O you women,and let your ear receive the word of His mouth;and teach your daughters wailing,and everyone her neighbor a lamentation.
21 “For death has come up into our windows;and has entered our palaces,to cut off the children from the streets,and the young men from the squares.”
22 Speak, Thus says the Lord: “The carcasses of men shall fallas dung upon the open field,and as the sheaf after the harvester,and no one shall gather them.”