“For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Jeremiah 9 contains 26 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.