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."