Exodus 12:30
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
30 Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was loud wailing throughout Egypt, for there was not a house without its dead.
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Jeremiah 9:17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
17 Let them come quickly
and raise for us a dirge,
That our eyes may run with tears,
our pupils flow with water.(A)
Jeremiah 9:19
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
19 Hear, you women, the word of the Lord,
let your ears receive the word of his mouth.
Teach your daughters a dirge,
and each other a lament:
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