Bible verse
For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.
Jeremiah 9:21 · BSB
The verses around it, from Jeremiah 9.
17 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.
18 Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.
19 For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”
20 Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.
21 For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.
22 Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”
23 This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.
24 But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.
25 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised yet uncircumcised:
KJV
For death is come up into our windows, [and] is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets.
ASV
For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
ERV
For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
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