900 B
900 B
Yahweh tells the people of Judah to mourn for the coming destruction of the land.
Summon funeral singers; let them come. Send out for women skilled at lamenting; let them come
AT: "Get women who are trained in mourning and bring those women here." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)
Summon funeral singers
"Call women who are professional singers at funerals"
let them come
AT: "tell the women to come." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)
Send out for women skilled at lamenting
AT: "Send people out to get women who are skilled at mourning."
Let them hurry and sing a mournful song over us
Yahweh says what the people of Judah will say when the destruction comes. AT: "Tell the women to hurry and sing a song to mourn for us."
so our eyes may run with tears and our eyelids flow with water
AT: "so we will cry very hard."