"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."
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Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together. and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.
And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people since they return not from their ways.
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 through our windows, is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from the street, the young men from the broadways.
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 hath come up into our windows, and hath 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.
For death hath come up into our windows, It hath come into our palaces, To cut off the suckling from without, Young men from the broad places.