Jeremiah 9:18
“(Verse 17, 18.) Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider (or understand) and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the wise women, that they may hurry, and let them take up a lamentation for us (or for you), and let our (or your) eyes shed tears, and let our (or your) eyelids flow with water; for…”
Source: Septuagint
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!
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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;
17and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.
— Jeremiah 9:18 —
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.
20For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants without, and the young men from the streets.