15. Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with bitter food, and give them poisonous water to drink.
16. I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”
17. Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider, and call for the mourning women to come;send for the skillful women to come;
18. let them make haste and raise a wailing over us, that our eyes may run down with tearsand our eyelids flow 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.’”
20. Hear, O women, the word of the Lord,and let your ear receive the word of his mouth;teach to your daughters a lament,and each to her neighbor a dirge.