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19 For a voice of (A)wailing is heard from Zion,
(B)How we are destroyed!
We are put to great shame,
For we have (C)left the land
Because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
20 Indeed, hear the word of Yahweh, O you (D)women,
And let your ear receive the word of His mouth;
Teach your daughters wailing,
And everyone her neighbor a funeral lamentation.
21 For (E)death has come up through our windows;
It has entered our palaces
To cut off the (F)infants from the streets,
The choice men from the open squares.

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