14. But have walked stubbornly after their own hearts and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them,
15. Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them bitter and poisonous water to drink.
16. I will scatter them also among nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword among them and after them until I have consumed them.
17. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skillful women to come.
18. Let them make haste and raise a wailing over us and for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush with water.