<p class="poetry">&#8216;Death has climbed in<n id="1" /> through our windows.p> <p class="poetry">It has entered into our fortified houses.p> <p class="poetry">It has taken away our children who play in the streets.p> <p class="poetry">It has taken away our young men who gather in the city squares.&#8217;p>

Then King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be committed to the courtyard of the guardhouse. He also ordered that a loaf of bread<n id="1" /> be given to him every day from the baker&#8217;s street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah was kept<n id="2" /> in the courtyard of the guardhouse.p>

that the <sc>Lord,sc> the God of Israel, says,<n id="1" /> &#8216;The forces at your disposal<n id="2" /> are now outside the walls fighting against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and the Babylonians<n id="3" /> who have you under siege. I will gather those forces back inside the city.<n id="4" />