³ They have poured out their blood like water
    all around Jerusalem,
    and there was no one to bury them.^(A)

¹⁰ We grope like the blind along a wall,
    groping like those who have no eyes;
we stumble at noon as in the twilight,
    among the vigorous^[a] as though we were dead.^(A)

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.”^(A)

¹⁸ For thus says the Lord:
I am going to sling out the inhabitants of the land
    at this time,
and I will bring distress on them,
    so that they shall feel it.