17 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Take heed, and call for [a]the mourning women, that they may come, and send for skillful women, that they may come,

18 And let them make haste, and let them take up a lamentation for us, that our eyes may cast out tears, and our eyelids gush out of water.

19 For a lamentable noise is heard out of Zion, How are we destroyed, and utterly confounded, for we have forsaken the land, and our dwellings [b]have cast us out.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:17 Seeing you cannot lament your own sins, call for those foolish women, whom of a superstition you have to lament for the dead, that they by their feigned tears may provoke you to some sorrow.
  2. Jeremiah 9:19 As though they were weary of us, because of our iniquities, Lev. 18:28 and 20:22.

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