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- 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: :en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_parallelism)
- Summon funeral singers - "Call women who are professional singers at funerals"
- let them come - AT: "tell the women to come." (See: :en:ta:vol1: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."