Jeremiah 9:20-22

International Standard Version

²⁰ “Now, you women, hear the message from the Lord;
    listen to what he has to say!
Teach your daughters how to mourn,
    let every woman teach^[a] her friend how to lament.
²¹ For death comes up through our windows;
    it has come into our palaces
to eliminate children from the streets
    and young men from the town squares.

²² Speak! ‘This is what the Lord says:
“The corpses of people will fall like dung
    on the surface of the field,
and like a row of cut grain behind
    the harvester when there is no one to gather it.”’”