15. For this reason, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will feed this people with absinthe, and I will give them the water of gall to drink.
16. And I will disperse them among nations, which they and their fathers have not known. And I will send the sword after them, until they are consumed."
17. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: "Consider and call upon the women mourners, and let them approach. And send to those women who are wise, and let them hurry.
18. 'Let them hasten to take up a lamentation over us. Let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run with water.'
19. For a voice of lamentation has been heard from Zion: 'How is it that we have been devastated and greatly confounded? Our tabernacles have been thrown down because we have forsaken the land.' "