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20 For hear, O women, the word of Yahweh,
    and let your ear receive the word of his mouth,
and teach your daughters a lamentation,
    and each woman her neighbor a lament.
21 For death has come into our windows,
    it has entered into our fortresses,
to cut off the children[a] from the streets,[b]
    the young men from the public squares.

22 Speak, ‘thus declares[c] Yahweh:

“The dead body of the human will fall
    like dung upon the surface of the field,
and like cut grain behind the reaper,
    and there is no one who gathers.”’”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:21 Hebrew “child”
  2. Jeremiah 9:21 Hebrew “street”
  3. Jeremiah 9:22 Literally “a declaration of”