Verse 17

The LORD of Heaven’s Armies told me to say to this people,“Take note of what I say. Call for the women who mourn for the dead! Summon those who are the most skilled at it!”

Referenced Verses

• Eccl 12:5 : 5 and they are afraid of heights and the dangers in the street; the almond blossoms grow white, and the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry shrivels up– because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about in the streets–
• 2 Chr 35:25 : 25 Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah which all the male and female singers use to mourn Josiah to this very day. It has become customary in Israel to sing these; they are recorded in the Book of Laments.
• Job 3:8 : 8 Let those who curse the day curse it– those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
• Amos 5:16-17 : 16 Because of Israel’s sins this is what the Lord, the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, says:“In all the squares there will be wailing, in all the streets they will mourn the dead. They will tell the field workers to lament and the professional mourners to wail. 17 In all the vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.
• Matt 9:23 : 23 When Jesus entered the leader’s house and saw the flute players and the disorderly crowd,
• Mark 5:38 : 38 They came to the house of the synagogue leader where he saw noisy confusion and people weeping and wailing loudly.