Jeremiah 9:19–22

19 For a sound of lamentation is heard from Zion:

How devastated we are.

We are greatly ashamed,n

for we have abandoned the land;

our dwellings have been torn down.

20 Now hear the word of the Lord, you women.

Pay attention toA the words from his mouth.

Teach your daughters a lament

and one another a dirge,

21 for Deatho has climbed through our windows;

it has entered our fortresses,

cutting off children from the streets,

young men from the squares.

22 “Speak as follows: ‘This is what the Lord declares: Human corpses will fall like manure on the surface of the field,p like newly cut grainq after the reaper with no one to gather it.