Jeremiah also lamented for Josiah. And to this day all the singing men and the singing women speak of Josiah in their lamentations. They made it an ordinance in Israel; and behold, they are written in the Lamentations.

Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, Consider carefully, and call for those who lament, that they may come. And send for the wise women, that they may come;

and let them make haste and take up a lamentation for us, so that our eyes may run down with tears, and waters flow from our eyelids.

Therefore Jehovah the God of Hosts, the Lord, says this: There shall be wailing in all the streets, and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! Alas! And they shall call the farmer to the mourning, and those that are skilled in wailing to lamentation.

and saying: We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we mourned to you, and you did not lament.

And He came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and saw a tumult and those who wept and wailed loudly.

Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, or snare his tongue with a cord which you let down?

No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up. Who then is able to stand before Me?