Jeremiah 9:20-22

New Catholic Bible

²⁰ Listen, you women, to the word of the Lord;
    let your ears receive the message he imparts.
²¹ Death has climbed through our windows
    and has entered our palaces.
It has cut down the children in the streets
    and the young people in the public squares.
²² The corpses of the slain will be strewn
    like dung on an open field,
like sheaves left behind by the reaper
    with no one to gather them.