Jeremiah 9:17-19

Contemporary English Version

The Women Who Are Paid To Weep

¹⁷The Lord All-Powerful said,
“Make arrangements now
for the women who are paid
to weep at funerals,^[a]
especially the women
who can cry the loudest.”

¹⁸The people answered,
“Let them come quickly
    and cry for us,
until our own eyes
    are flooded with tears.
¹⁹Now those of us on Zion cry,
‘We are ruined!
    We can't stand the shame.
Our homes have been destroyed,
    and we must leave our land.’

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Footnotes

9.17 women … weep at funerals: Or “the women who weep for Baal”; the god Baal was believed to have died and come back to life, and some women would go to places of worship and weep over the death of Baal.