And those living in the land, the Canaanites, saw the wailing in the threshing- floor of thorns. And they said, This is a very great wailing to Egypt; for this reason its name was called The Meadow of Egypt, which is on the other side of Jordan.
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah; and all the singers and the songstresses speak in their lamentations of Josiah to this day, and gave them as a statute in Israel; and behold, they are written in the Lamentations.
This is a lamentation, and they shall lament her; the daughters of the nations shall lament her. Over Egypt and over all her multitude, they shall lament her, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.