Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 9:20

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 20, 21.) Therefore, listen, women, to the word of the Lord, and let your ears receive the speech of His mouth, and teach your daughters lamentation, and each one her neighbor mourning. For death has entered through our windows, it has come into our houses: to destroy the children from outside, the young men fro…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Jeremiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

20For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants without, and the young men from the streets.

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In context

18For a voice of lamentation has been heard in Zion, How are we become wretched! we are greatly ashamed, for we have forsaken the land, and have abandoned our tabernacles!

19Hear now, ye women, the word of God, and let your ears receive the words of his mouth, and teach your daughters lamentation, and every woman her neighbor a dirge.

— Jeremiah 9:20 —

21And the carcasses of the men shall be for an example on the face of the field of your land, like grass after the mower, and there shall be none to gather them.

22Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the strong man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth;

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