The first level means any special skill or expertise. For example, Jeremiah calls for professional mourners to come weep at the funeral for Judah, because the nation is as good as dead. Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skilled (hokmah) women to come; let them quickly raise a dirge over us, so that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids flow with water. (Jer. 9:17–18) In the same way, Ezekiel composes a dirge for the coastal city-state of Tyre, describing
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