16 I will scatter them among the nationsl that they and their ancestors have not known. I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”

MOURNING OVER JUDAH

17 This is what the Lord of Armies says:

Consider, and summon the women who mourn;m

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 be soaked with weeping.