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18 Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us,
That our (A)eyes may shed tears
And our eyelids flow with water.
19 For a voice of (B)wailing is heard from Zion,
(C)How we are destroyed!
We are put to great shame,
For we have (D)left the land
Because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
20 Indeed, hear the word of Yahweh, O you (E)women,
And let your ear receive the word of His mouth;
Teach your daughters wailing,
And everyone her neighbor a funeral lamentation.

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