Jeremiah 9:17-19

New Century Version

“Now, think about these things!
    Call for the women who cry at funerals to come.
    Send for those women who are good at that job.
¹⁸ Let them come quickly
    and cry loudly for us.
Then our eyes will fill with tears,
    and streams of water will flow from our eyelids.
¹⁹ The sound of loud crying is heard from Jerusalem:
    ‘We are truly ruined!
    We are truly ashamed!
We must leave our land,
    because our houses are in ruins.’”