16. I will scatter them also among Gentiles whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them.
17. Thus hath the Lord of the hosts said, Consider ye and call for the mourning women that they may come and send for cunning women that they may come,
18. and let them make haste and take up a wailing for us that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19. For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we destroyed! We are greatly confounded. Why have we forsaken the land? Why have our dwellings cast us out?
20. Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth and teach your daughters wailing and each one her neighbour lamentation.
21. For death is come up into our windows and is entered into our palaces to cut off the children from without and the young men from the streets.
22. Speak, Thus hath the Lord said, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field and as the handful after the harvestman, and there shall be none to gather them.
23. Thus hath the Lord said, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches;
24. but let him that glories glory in this, that he understands me and knows me, that I am the Lord who does mercy, judgment, and righteousness in the earth: for in these things I delight, said the Lord.
25. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will visit all those who are circumcised with the uncircumcised:
26. Egypt and Judah and Edom and the sons of Ammon and Moab and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all the Gentiles are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.