Jeremiah 9:16-18

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁶I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.

The People Mourn in Judgment

¹⁷Thus says the Lord of hosts:
Consider, and call for the mourning women to come;
    send for the skilled women to come;
¹⁸let them quickly raise a dirge over us,
    so that our eyes may run down with tears,
    and our eyelids flow with water.

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