This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Old men and old women will again sit along the streets of Jerusalem, each with a staff in hand because of great age.
No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at
And so Job died, old and full of years.
Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of
Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no one in
You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they hav