~ and take up a ~ 24_JER_07_29  Cut off thine hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast [it] away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. #, 24_JER_09_18  And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. #,