Jeremiah 9:17-19

New International Reader's Version

“Here is something I want you to think about.
    Send for the women who mourn for the dead.
    Send for the most skilled among them.”

¹⁸ Let them come quickly
    and weep for us.
Let them cry until tears flow from our eyes.
    Let them weep until water pours out of our eyes.
¹⁹ People are heard weeping in Zion.
    They are saying, “We are destroyed!
    We are filled with shame!
We must leave our land.
    Our houses have been torn down.”