Jeremiah 9:19-22

19The sound of crying is heard from Zion. “We’re ruined! We’re very ashamed. We must leave our land because our homes have been torn down.”

20Listen to the Lord’s word, you women, and open your ears to hear his words. Teach your daughters how to cry. Teach your neighbors funeral songs.

21Death has come through our windows and entered our palaces. Death has cut down the children in the streets and the young men in the marketplaces.

22This is what the Lord says: Dead bodies will fall like manure on the field. They will be like grain that has been cut but not gathered.