New Revised Standard Version
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skilled women to come;

Contemporary English Version
The LORD All-Powerful said, "Make arrangements now for the women who are paid to weep at funerals, especially the women who can cry the loudest."

New American Bible
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Inquire, and call the wailing women to come; summon the most skilled of them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that are wise women, and let them make haste:

Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that are wise women, and let them make haste:

call.

2 Chronicles 35:25 Particularly Jeremias: whose lamentations for Josias all the singing men and singing women repeat unto this day, and it became like a law in Israel: Behold it is found written in the Lamentations.

Job 3:8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan:

Ecclesiastes 12:5 And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street.

Amos 5:16,17 Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the sovereign Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament. . . .

Matthew 9:23 And when Jesus was come into the house of the ruler, and saw the minstrels and the multitude making a rout,

Mark 5:38 And they cone to the house of the ruler of the synagogue; and he seeth a tumult, and people weeping and wailing much.

the mourning women.