Gird you with sackcloth; the usual habit of mourners, especially in those days, Isa_22:12Jer_6:26: it is a calling upon them to repent.
Lament and howl: probably these expressions do import the several ways that men have to set forth their bitter complaints and sorrows of the mind, both by the gestures of the body, Jer_2:37Luk_18:13, and expressions of the tongue, Psa_32:3Isa_59:11.
Is not turned back from us; neither will it, until it have accomplished its ends, Jer_30:24.