Let them make haste And take up a wailing for us, That our eyes may run with tears, And our eyelids gush with water.
Jeremiah 9:18
Surrounding context
9:17 Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider and call for the mourning women, That they may come; And send for skillful wailing women, That they may come.
9:18 Let them make haste And take up a wailing for us, That our eyes may run with tears, And our eyelids gush with water.
9:19 For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: "How we are plundered! We are greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because we have been cast out of our dwellings."'