⁸ Their ^(A)widows will be more numerous before Me
Than the sand of the seas;
I will bring against them, against the mother of a young man,
A ^(B)destroyer at noon;
I will suddenly bring down on her
Shock and horror.

²¹ Therefore, ^(A)give their children over to famine
And turn them over to the ^[a]power of the sword;
And let their wives become ^(B)childless and ^(C)widowed.
Let their men also be slaughtered to death,
Their ^(D)young men struck and killed by the sword in battle.