Jeremiah 9:20-22

Evangelical Heritage Version

²⁰ Listen to the word of the Lord, you women.
Pay attention to the word from his mouth.
Teach your daughters how to sob.
Each of you should teach her neighbor a lament.
²¹ Death has climbed in through a window
and entered our citadels.
It has taken away the children from the streets
and the young men from the city squares.

²² This is what the Lord says.
Dead bodies will fall
like manure on the ground,
like freshly cut grain after the reaper,
with no one to gather it.