Because of Israel’s sins this is what the LORD, the God who commands armies, the sovereign One, 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.

主耶和华万军之神如此说：“在一切宽阔处必有哀号的声音；在各街市上必有人说：‘哀哉！哀哉！’又必叫农夫来哭号，叫善唱哀歌的来举哀。

因此，主耶和华—万军之上帝如此说：“在一切的广场上必有哀号的声音；在各街市上必有人说：‘哀哉！哀哉！’他们叫农夫来哭号，叫善唱哀歌的来举哀；

因此，主耶和华—万军之神如此说：“在一切的广场上必有哀号的声音；在各街市上必有人说：‘哀哉！哀哉！’他们叫农夫来哭号，叫善唱哀歌的来举哀；

因此，主——万军之上帝耶和华说：“哀号之声要响遍各广场，哭喊之声将充满大街小巷。农夫被叫来哭泣，哭丧者被召来哀号。

因此，主耶和华万军的神这样说：“各广场充满哀恸的声音，街上只听见‘苦啊！苦啊！’的喊声；人要召农夫来哀哭，召善于哭丧的人来哀喊。

主耶和華－萬軍之神如此說：在一切寬闊處必有哀號的聲音；在各街市上必有人說：哀哉！哀哉！又必叫農夫來哭號，叫善唱哀歌的來舉哀。

因此，主耶和華－萬軍之上帝如此說：「在一切的廣場上必有哀號的聲音；在各街市上必有人說：『哀哉！哀哉！』他們叫農夫來哭號，叫善唱哀歌的來舉哀；

因此，主耶和華－萬軍之神如此說：「在一切的廣場上必有哀號的聲音；在各街市上必有人說：『哀哉！哀哉！』他們叫農夫來哭號，叫善唱哀歌的來舉哀；

因此，主——萬軍之上帝耶和華說：「哀號之聲要響遍各廣場，哭喊之聲將充滿大街小巷。農夫被叫來哭泣，哭喪者被召來哀號。

因此，主耶和華萬軍的神這樣說：“各廣場充滿哀慟的聲音，街上只聽見‘苦啊！苦啊！’的喊聲；人要召農夫來哀哭，召善於哭喪的人來哀喊。

主永恆主萬軍之上帝這麼說：『在各廣場上必都有號咷聲，在各街市上必有人說：「有禍了！有禍了！」他們必叫耕地的人來哀哭，叫專唱哀歌的來舉哀。

主耶和華、萬軍之上帝曰、在諸廣場、人皆號咷、在諸街衢、人曰哀哉、哀哉、召農夫哀悼、召善哭者號咷、

萬有之主耶和華上帝曰、在逵衢、人必椎心、在陋巷、人必哀呼、使農夫哭泣、使善作哀歌者椎心、

主萬有之天主如是云、在各逵衢、人必哀哭、在各街道、必有人呼哀哉哀哉、亦必招農夫來哭泣、亦必招農夫來哭泣或作農夫亦必招人來哭泣使善作哀歌者舉哀、

Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord God Almighty, says:“ There will be wailing in all the streets and cries of anguish in every public square. The farmers will be summoned to weep and the mourners to wail.

The Lord God rules over all. The Lord says,“ People will weep in all the streets. They will be very sad in every market place. Even farmers will be told to cry loudly. People will mourn for the dead.

Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord:“ In all the squares there shall be wailing, and in all the streets they shall say,‘ Alas! Alas!’ They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation,

Therefore, this is what the Lord, the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies, says:“ There will be crying in all the public squares and mourning in every street. Call for the farmers to weep with you, and summon professional mourners to wail.

Therefore the LORD, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: There will be wailing in all the public squares; they will cry out in anguish in all the streets. The farmer will be called on to mourn, and professional mourners to wail.

Therefore this is what the Lord God of armies, the Lord says:“ There is mourning in all the public squares, And in all the streets they say,‘ Oh no! Oh no!’ They also call the farmer to mourning And professional mourners to mourning rites.

Therefore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord, says this:“ There shall be wailing in all streets, And they shall say in all the highways,‘ Alas! Alas!’ They shall call the farmer to mourning, And skillful lamenters to wailing.

Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all the broad ways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! Alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing.

Therefore Yahweh, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: There will be wailing in all the public squares; they will cry out in anguish in all the streets. The farmer will be called on to mourn, and professional mourners to wail.

Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing[ shall be] in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord, says:“ Wailing will be in all the wide ways; and they will say in all the streets,‘ Alas! Alas!’ and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.

Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.

The LORD who rules over all 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!”I said,“ Indeed, let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us. Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes and our eyelids overflow with water.For the sound of wailing is soon to be heard in Zion. They will wail,‘ We are utterly ruined! We are completely disgraced! For our houses have been torn down and we must leave our land.’”I said,“ So now, you wailing women, hear what the LORD says. Open your ears to the words from his mouth. Teach your daughters this mournful song, and each of you teach your neighbor this lament.

I said,“ I will weep and mourn for the grasslands on the mountains, I will sing a mournful song for the pastures in the wilderness because they are so scorched no one travels through them. The sound of livestock is no longer heard there. Even the birds in the sky and the wild animals in the fields have fled and are gone.”

The merchants who sold these things, who got rich from her, will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment. They will weep and mourn,saying,“ Woe, woe, O great city– dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet clothing, and adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls–

Listen and warn the family of Jacob! The sovereign LORD, the God who commands armies, is speaking!

At that time the sovereign master, the LORD who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.

In fact, I hear a cry like that of a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like that of a woman giving birth to her first baby. It is the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, reaching out for help, saying,“ I am done in! My life is ebbing away before these murderers!”

They will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment, and will say,“ Woe, woe, O great city, Babylon the powerful city! For in a single hour your doom has come!”

Indeed, the cries of distress echo throughout Moabite territory; their wailing can be heard in Eglaim and Beer Elim.

They went up to the temple, the people of Dibon went up to the high places to lament. Because of what happened to Nebo and Medeba, Moab wails. Every head is shaved bare, every beard is trimmed off.In their streets they wear sackcloth; on their roofs and in their town squares all of them wail, they fall down weeping.The people of Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz. For this reason Moab’s soldiers shout in distress; their courage wavers.My heart cries out because of Moab’s plight, and for the fugitives stretched out as far as Zoar and Eglath Shelishiyah. For they weep as they make their way up the ascent of Luhith; they loudly lament their demise on the road to Horonaim.

Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.

I will turn your festivals into funerals, and all your songs into funeral dirges. I will make everyone wear funeral clothes and cause every head to be shaved bald. I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day.

In that day people will sing this taunt song to you– they will mock you with this lament:‘ We are completely destroyed; they sell off the property of my people. How they remove it from me! They assign our fields to the conqueror.’

For this reason I will mourn and wail; I will walk around barefoot and without my outer garments. I will howl like a wild dog, and screech like an owl.

And they threw dust on their heads and were shouting with weeping and mourning,“ Woe, Woe, O great city– in which all those who had ships on the sea got rich from her wealth– because in a single hour she has been destroyed!”

and I will drive you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord. He is called the God who commands armies!

Announce a holy fast; proclaim a sacred assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the temple of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.