yea, they shall be afraid of {\i that which is} high, and terrors {\i shall be} in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations unto this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
Cut off thy hair, {\i O Jerusalem}, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Jehovah hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel;\par\tab He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds;\par\tab And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament; the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, saith the Lord Jehovah.\par
In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, {\i and} say, We are utterly ruined: he changeth the portion of my people: how doth he remove {\i it} from me! to the rebellious he divideth our fields.