Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the Lord: "Wailing will be in all the broad ways; And they will say in all the streets, 'Alas! Alas!' And they will call the farmer to mourning, And those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.
Alas! Alas! ..." "This renders the wail of the mourners rather than actual words.  Wailing and mourning with loud public lamentations mark the funeral rite throughout the east."[38]  One meets with this also in the New Testament, as, for example, when the paid mourners were lamenting the death of Jairus' daughter whom Jesus raised from the dead.