9:1 (8:23)
and my eyes were a fountain full of tears!
If they were, I could cry day and night
for those of my dear people
9:10 I said,
“I will weep and mourn
I will sing a mournful song for the pastures in the wilderness
because they are so scorched no one travels through them.
The sound of livestock is no longer heard there.
Even the birds in the sky and the wild animals in the fields
have fled and are gone.”
9:17 The Lord who rules over all
“Take note of what I say.
Call for the women who mourn for the dead!
Summon those who are the most skilled at it!”
9:18 I said, “Indeed,
Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes
and our eyelids overflow with water.