21 For death has come up through our windows; it has come into our dwelling towers, in order to cut off the child from the street, the young men from the public squares.’+

21 Therefore give their sons over to the famine,+ and deliver them over to the power* of the sword;+ and may their wives become women bereaved of children, and widows.+ And may their own men become those killed with deadly plague, their young men those struck down with the sword in the battle.+