Jeremiah 9:20-22

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²⁰ Hear, O women, the word of the Lord,
    and let your ears receive the word of his mouth;
teach to your daughters a dirge,
    and each to her neighbour a lament.
²¹ ‘Death has come up into our windows,
    it has entered our palaces,
to cut off the children from the streets
    and the young men from the squares.’
²² Speak! Thus says the Lord:
‘Human corpses shall fall
    like dung upon the open field,
like sheaves behind the reaper,
    and no one shall gather them.’