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Thus says the LORD of hosts: 1"Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skillful women to come;
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let them make haste 2and raise a wailing over us, 3that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids flow with water.
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For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion: 4'How we are ruined! We are utterly shamed, because we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.'"
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Hear, O women, the word of the LORD, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a lament, and each to her neighbor a dirge.
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For death has come up into our windows; it has entered our palaces, 5cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.
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Speak, "Thus declares the LORD: 6'The dead bodies of men shall fall like dung upon the open field, 7like sheaves after the reaper, and none shall gather them.'"
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Thus says the LORD: 8"Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,
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but 9let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. 10For in these things I delight, declares the LORD."
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"Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when 11I will punish all those who are circumcised merely in the flesh--
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Jeremias 9:17
Assim diz o Senhor dos exércitos: Considerai, e chamai as carpideiras, para que venham; e mandai procurar mulheres hábeis, para que venham também;
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Jeremiah 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.
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Jeremias 9:17
Assim diz o SENHOR dos Exércitos:“Considerem: Chamem as pranteadoras profissionais;mandem chamar as mais hábeis entre elas.
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