^3 (A)The songs of the temple^{[a] (B)}shall become wailings^[b] in that day,”
declares the Lord God.
^(C)“So many dead bodies!”
“They are thrown everywhere!”
^(D)“Silence!”

²³ Take away from me the noise of your songs;
    to ^(A)the melody of your harps I will not listen.

^10 (A)I will turn your feasts into mourning
    and all your songs into lamentation;
^(B)I will bring sackcloth on every waist
    ^(C)and baldness on every head;
^(D)I will make it like the mourning for an only son
    and the end of it like a bitter day.

²¹ For death has come up into our windows;
    it has entered our palaces,
^(A)cutting off the children from the streets
    and the young men from the squares.
²² Speak: “Thus declares the Lord,
^(B)‘The dead bodies of men shall fall
    like dung upon the open field,
^(C)like sheaves after the reaper,
    and none shall gather them.’”

11 Open your doors, ^(A)O Lebanon,
    that the fire may devour your cedars!
² Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,
    for the glorious trees are ruined!
Wail, ^(B)oaks of Bashan,
    for the thick forest has been felled!
³ The sound of ^(C)the wail of ^(D)the shepherds,
    for their glory is ruined!
The sound of the roar of ^(E)the lions,
    ^(F)for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!

³ Horsemen charging,
    flashing sword and ^(A)glittering spear,
^(B)hosts of slain,
    heaps of corpses,
dead bodies without end—
    they stumble over the bodies!