Jeremiah 9:17
“It is our part too henceforth to mourn, or rather we have need to say this every day. We profit nothing by our prayers, nothing by our advice and exhortation, it remaineth therefore that we weep. Thus did Christ; after having many times exhorted those in Jerusalem, when they profited nothing, He wept at their hardness…”
Source: Septuagint
17and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.
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15and I will scatter them among the nations, to them whom neither they nor their fathers knew; and I will send a sword upon them, until I have consumed them with it.
16Thus saith the Lord, Call ye the mourning women, and let them come; and send to the wise women, and let them utter their voice;
— Jeremiah 9:17 —
18For a voice of lamentation has been heard in Zion, How are we become wretched! we are greatly ashamed, for we have forsaken the land, and have abandoned our tabernacles!
19Hear now, ye women, the word of God, and let your ears receive the words of his mouth, and teach your daughters lamentation, and every woman her neighbor a dirge.