Jeremiah 9:16-18

Easy-to-Read Version

¹⁶I will scatter the people of Judah throughout other nations. They will live in strange nations that they and their fathers never knew about. I will send men with swords. They will kill the people of Judah. They will kill them until all the people are gone.”

¹⁷This is what the Lord All-Powerful says:
    “Now think about these things!
Call for the women who get paid to cry at funerals.
    Send for the people who are good at that job.
¹⁸The people say,
‘Let those women come quickly
    and cry for us.
Then our eyes will fill with tears
    that flow over our eyelids like streams of water.’