Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageFor Death itself has climbed in through our windows, crept into our palaces — snatching children from the streets and young men from the public squares.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GFor death has climbed through our windows, has entered our palaces — cutting off children from the streets and young men from the squares.
KJV
King James VersionFor 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.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleFor death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.
Footnotes
Death climbing through windows evokes the Ugaritic death deity Mot, who was depicted in Canaanite mythology as entering homes through windows — an image of an intimate, unstoppable invader. Jeremiah may be deliberately demythologising this imagery: the mythological Mot becomes the very real death of Babylonian conquest. FOG renders "death" in lower case, treating it as action; FOG Message capitalises "Death" to preserve its quasi-mythological, personified resonance.
