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20 Therefore, women, hear ye the word of the Lord, and your ears take the word of his mouth; and teach ye your daughters wailing, and each woman teach her neighbour mourning.

21 For why death ascended by your windows, it entered into your houses, to lose little children withoutforth, and young men from the streets. (For death hath gone in by your windows, it entered into your houses; and it hath destroyed the little children outside, and the young men in the streets.)

22 Speak thou, The Lord saith these things, And the dead body of a man shall fall down as a turd on the face of the country(side), and as hay behind the back of the mower, and none there is that gathereth (and there is no one who gathereth them).

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20 Now, you women, hear the word of the Lord;
    open your ears to the words of his mouth.(A)
Teach your daughters how to wail;
    teach one another a lament.(B)
21 Death has climbed in through our windows(C)
    and has entered our fortresses;
it has removed the children from the streets
    and the young men(D) from the public squares.

22 Say, “This is what the Lord declares:

“‘Dead bodies will lie
    like dung(E) on the open field,
like cut grain behind the reaper,
    with no one to gather them.’”

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