Jeremiah 9:17-19

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁷ Thus says the Lord of hosts:
“Consider, and call for the mourning women to come;
    send for the skilful women to come;
¹⁸ let them make haste and raise a wailing over us,
    that our eyes may run down with tears,
    and our eyelids gush with water.
¹⁹ For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
    ‘How we are ruined!
    We are utterly shamed,
because we have left the land,
    because they have cast down our dwellings.’”