Jeremiah 9:20-22

Expanded Bible

²⁰ Now, women [^Cof Judah], listen to the word of the Lord;
    ·open your ears to hear [^Llet your ears take in] the words of his mouth.
Teach your daughters ·how to cry loudly [a lament].
    Teach ·one another [^Leach her neighbor] a ·funeral song [dirge].
²¹ Death has climbed in through our windows
    and has entered our ·strong cities [palaces].
·Death has taken away [^L…to cut off] our children who play in the streets
    and the young men ·who meet in [^Lfrom] the city squares.
²² Say, “This is what the Lord says:
‘The ·dead bodies [corpses] of people will ·lie [^Lfall]
    in the open field like dung.
They will lie like grain ·a farmer has cut [^Lafter the harvester/reaper],
    but there will be no one to gather them.’”