For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined!
We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
Yet hear the LORD’s word, you women.
Let your ear receive the word of his mouth.
Teach your daughters wailing.
Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.
For death has come up into our windows.
It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.