Hear, O women, the saying of the Lord, 20
Your ears take in the word of His mouth,
Teach the lament to your daughters
Each to her comrade the dirge:
“For Death has come up by our windows 21
And into our palaces,
Cutting off from the streets the children
The youths from the places;[407]
And the corpses of men are fallen 22
As dung on the field,