Jeremiah 9:17-19

New International Version - UK

‘Consider now! Call for the wailing women to come;
    send for the most skilful of them.
¹⁸ Let them come quickly
    and wail over us
till our eyes overflow with tears
    and water streams from our eyelids.
¹⁹ The sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
    “How ruined we are!
    How great is our shame!
We must leave our land
    because our houses are in ruins.”’