Jeremiah 9:14-18 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

14. therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: See now, I will give this people wormwood to eat and poisoned water to drink.

15. I will scatter them among nations whom neither they nor their ancestors have known; I will send the sword to pursue them until I have completely destroyed them.

16. Thus says the Lord of hosts:Inquire, and call the wailing women to come;summon the most skilled of them.

17. Let them come quicklyand raise for us a dirge,That our eyes may run with tears,our pupils flow with water.

18. The sound of the dirge is heard from Zion:We are ruined and greatly ashamed;We have left the land,given up our dwellings!

Jeremiah 9