²¹ For ^(A)death has come up through our windows;
It has entered our palaces
To cut off the ^(B)infants from the streets,
The choice men from the open squares.

²¹ Therefore, ^(A)give their children over to famine
And deliver them up to the ^[a]power of the sword;
And let their wives become ^(B)childless and ^(C)widowed.
Let their men also be ^[b]smitten to death,
Their ^(D)young men struck down by the sword in battle.

²⁶ Therefore, her ^(A)young men will fall in her open squares,
And all the men of war will be ^[a]silenced in that day,” declares Yahweh of hosts.

⁴ They will fall down ^[a]slain in the land of the Chaldeans,
And ^(A)pierced through in their streets.”