Jeremiah 9:19-21

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁹ For a lamentable noise is heard out of Zion, “How we are destroyed and utterly confounded! For we have forsaken the land, and our dwellings have cast us out!”

²⁰ Therefore hear the Word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ears regard the words of His Mouth. And teach your daughters to mourn, and everyone her neighbor to lament.

²¹ For death has come up into our windows and has entered into our palaces, to destroy the children outside, and the young men in the streets: