20 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ears regard the words of his mouth, and [a]teach your daughters to mourn, and everyone her neighbor to lament.

21 For death is come up into our [b]windows, and is entered into our palaces, to destroy the children without, and the young men in the streets.

22 Speak, Thus saith the Lord, The carcasses of men shall lie, even as the dung upon the field, and as the handful after the mower, and none shall gather them.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:20 He derideth the superstition of the women which made an art of mourning, and taught to weep with feigned tears.
  2. Jeremiah 9:21 Signifying, that there is no means to deliver the wicked from God’s judgments: but when they think to be most sure, and most far off, then they are soonest taken.

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