^{21 Ref} 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.

^{22 Ref} Speak thus -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And fallen hath the carcase of man, As dung on the face of the field, And as a handful after the reaper, And there is none gathering.