Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 9:18

18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eye-lids gush out with waters.

As by the calling for their Artificial Mourners, he did intimate the greatness of the Misery, that was coming upon them, that with all their Art they could not sufficiently bewail it; so here by making haste, he intimates the near approach of it, that it was even at the doors.

Pitch upon some form of Mourning that may be suitable to our condition.

This and the former are each of them an hyperbolical expression, and yet are too little to bewail the greatness of the Judgment, which suits with the Prophets Lamentation, ver. 1. The Prophet would herein intimate that they that were so stupid, as to hear the Prophets denouncing their Judgments with dry eyes, though he wish'd them to have been fountains of tears, shall now suddenly feel, that they shall have cause enough to send for all the helps, not only real, but Artificial to stir up the Mournings.