Jeremiah 9:19-21

The Voice

¹⁹    Listen to the voice of sorrow weeping from Zion herself:
        “We are ruined. All that remains for us is great shame.
    Now we must leave this land that was ours;
        they have torn down our houses.”

²⁰Jeremiah: So listen now, women of Judah, to the word of the Eternal.
        Mark His words well.
    It is time to teach your daughters how to mourn,
        time to teach your neighbors the song of lament.
²¹    For death has found us all.
        It has crept in through our windows and slipped past our defenses.
    It has cut down our children in the streets,
        and our young men in the public squares. Death has found us all.