13 but followed instead their stubborn hearts and the Baals, as their ancestors had taught them,
14 therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: See now, I will give this people wormwood to eat and poisoned water to drink.
15 I will scatter them among nations whom neither they nor their ancestors have known; I will send the sword to pursue them until I have completely destroyed them.
16 Thus says the Lord of hosts:Inquire, and call the wailing women to come;summon the most skilled of them.
17 Let them come quicklyand raise for us a dirge,That our eyes may run with tears,our pupils flow with water.
18 The sound of the dirge is heard from Zion:We are ruined and greatly ashamed;We have left the land,given up our dwellings!
19 Hear, you women, the word of the Lord,let your ears receive the word of his mouth.Teach your daughters a dirge,and each other a lament: