Jeremiah 9:16-18

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

Mourning over Judah

¹⁷This is what the Lord of Armies says:

Consider, and summon the women who mourn;^(B)
send for the skillful women.
¹⁸Let them come quickly to raise a lament over us
so that our eyes may overflow with tears,
our eyelids be soaked with weeping.

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