17. Thus says the LORD of hosts,
18. And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with water.
19. For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we plundered! we are greatly ashamed, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
20. Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.
21. For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the squares.
22. Speak, Thus says the LORD,