Jeremiah 9:17-22 - Mourning Over Judah

¹⁷ This is what the Lord of Hosts says:

Consider, and summon the women who mourn;
send for the skillful women.
¹⁸ Let them come quickly to raise a lament over us
so that our eyes may overflow with tears,
our eyelids soaked with weeping.
¹⁹ For a sound of lamentation is heard from Zion:
How devastated we are.
We are greatly ashamed,
for we have abandoned the land;
our dwellings have been torn down.

²⁰ Now hear the word of the Lord, you women.
Pay attention to the word of His mouth.
Teach your daughters a lament
and one another a dirge,
²¹ for Death has climbed through our windows;
it has entered our fortresses,
cutting off children from the streets,
young men from the squares.

²² Speak as follows:

This is what the Lord says:

Human corpses will fall
like manure on the surface of the field,
like newly cut grain after the reaper
with no one to gather it.