Jeremiah 9:19-21

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¹⁹ For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
    ^(A)‘How we are ruined!
    We are utterly shamed,
because we have left the land,
    because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
²⁰ Hear, O women, the word of the Lord,
    and let your ear receive the word of his mouth;
teach to your daughters a lament,
    and each to her neighbour a dirge.
²¹ For death has come up into our windows;
    it has entered our palaces,
^(B)cutting off the children from the streets
    and the young men from the squares.