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18 And let them hasten,
    and let them lift up wailing over us,
so that our eyes may melt with tears,
    and our eyelids may flow with water.
19 For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion,
    ‘How we are devastated!
We are very ashamed because we have left the land,
    because they have overthrown our dwelling places.’
20 For hear, O women, the word of Yahweh,
    and let your ear receive the word of his mouth,
and teach your daughters a lamentation,
    and each woman her neighbor a lament.

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