Jeremiah 9:19-21

New Catholic Bible

¹⁹ May a sound of lamenting be heard in Zion,
    “Great is our ruin;
    intense is our shame.
We must leave our land;
    our homes have been destroyed.”^[a]
20 Listen, you women, to the word of the Lord;
    let your ears receive the message he imparts.
²¹ Death has climbed through our windows
    and has entered our palaces.
It has cut down the children in the streets
    and the young people in the public squares.