Jeremiah 9:19-21

Good News Translation

“We are ruined!
    We are completely disgraced!
We must leave our land;
    our homes have been torn down.”

“Listen to the Lord, you women,
    and pay attention to his words.
Teach your daughters how to mourn,
    and your friends how to sing a funeral song.
²¹ Death has come in through our windows
    and entered our palaces;
it has cut down the children in the streets
    and the young men in the marketplaces.