Jeremiah 9:20-22

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²⁰Now hear the word of the Lord, you women.
Pay attention to^[a] the words from his mouth.
Teach your daughters a lament
and one another a dirge,
²¹for Death^(A) has climbed through our windows;
it has entered our fortresses,
cutting off children from the streets,
young men from the squares.

²²“Speak as follows: ‘This is what the Lord declares: Human corpses will fall like manure on the surface of the field,^(B) like newly cut grain^(C) after the reaper with no one to gather it.

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9:20 Lit Your ears must receive

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