en_tn/jer/09/17.md

900 B

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."