Jeremiah 9:13-22 - The Nation Is Judged By Yahweh
13 Jehovah said: They have forsaken the Law I set before them. They have not obeyed my voice nor walked according to it. 14 They have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals as their fathers taught them. 15 Therefore Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel says: 'Behold! I will feed this people with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.' 16 I will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword (violence and warfare) after them until I have annihilated them.'
17 Jehovah of Hosts says: 'Consider the mourning women that they may come. Send for the wailing women that they may come! 18 Let them hurry and take up a wailing for us. Let our eyes shed tears and our eyelids flow with water. 19 A voice of wailing is heard from Zion: How we are ruined! We are put to great shame for we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.
20 Listen to the word of Jehovah, you women, and open your ears to hear his words. Teach your daughters how to cry. Teach your neighbors funeral songs. 21 Death has come through our windows and entered our palaces. Death has cut down the children in the streets and the young men in the market places.
22 This is what Jehovah says: Dead bodies will fall like manure on the field. They will be like grain that has been cut but not gathered.'