15. Therefore the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16. I will scatter them also amongst the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”
17. the Lord of Hosts says,“Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come;and send for the skilful women, that they may come.
18. 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 waters.
19. For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion,‘How we are ruined!We are greatly confounded,because we have forsaken the land,because they have cast down our dwellings.’”