Jeremiah 9:19-21

Lexham English Bible

¹⁹ For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion,
    ‘How we are devastated!
We are very ashamed because we have left the land,
    because they have overthrown our dwelling places.’
²⁰ For hear, O women, the word of Yahweh,
    and let your ear receive the word of his mouth,
and teach your daughters a lamentation,
    and each woman her neighbor a lament.
²¹ For death has come into our windows,
    it has entered into our fortresses,
to cut off the children^[a] from the streets,^[b]
    the young men from the public squares.