Catholic Public Domain Version
"‘For death has climbed through our windows. It has entered our houses to perish the little children from the outdoors, the youths from the streets.’ ” "
— Jeremiah 9:21, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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.”
“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. ”
“For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets.”
“‘Death has climbed in through our windows. It has entered into our fortified houses. It has taken away our children who play in the streets. It has taken away our young men who gather in the city squares.’”
“For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets.”
“For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.”
“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.”
‘Let them hasten to take up a lamentation over us. Let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run with water.’
For a voice of lamentation has been heard from Zion: ‘How is it that we have been devastated and greatly confounded? Our tabernacles have been thrown down because we have forsaken the land.’ ”
“Therefore, listen, O women, to the word of the Lord! And let your ears take up the word of his mouth. And teach your daughters to lament. And let each one teach her neighbor to mourn:
‘For death has climbed through our windows. It has entered our houses to perish the little children from the outdoors, the youths from the streets.’ ”
“Speak: Thus says the Lord: And the corpses of men will fall like manure over the face of the countryside, and like hay behind the back of the reaper, and there will be no one to gather it.”
Thus says the Lord: “The wise man should not glory in his wisdom, and the strong man should not glory in his strength, and the rich man should not glory in his riches.
But he who glories should glory in this: to know me and to know me well. For I am the Lord, who accomplishes mercy and judgment and justice upon the earth. For these things are pleasing to me, says the Lord.