Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skilful women to come;

For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion: `How we are ruined! We are utterly shamed, because we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.'"

And when Jesus came to the ruler's house, and saw the flute players, and the crowd making a tumult,

he said, "Depart; for the girl is not dead but sleeping." And they laughed at him.

`We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.'

And all were weeping and bewailing her; but he said, "Do not weep; for she is not dead but sleeping."

And they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead.

So Peter rose and went with them. And when he had come, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping, and showing tunics and other garments which Dorcas made while she was with them.