Jeremiah 9:20-22

Contemporary English Version

²⁰ “We ask you women
to pay attention
    to what the Lord says.
We will teach you a funeral song
that you can teach
    your daughters and friends:
²¹ ‘We were in our fortress,
but death sneaked in
    through our windows.
It even struck down
children at play
    and our strongest young men.’

²² “The Lord has told us
the ground will be covered
    with dead bodies,
like ungathered stalks of grain
    or manure in a field.”