Charles Spurgeon Commentary Jeremiah 9:20-21

"Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation. For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets." — Jeremiah 9:20-21 (ASV)

Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation. For death has come up into our windows,

It did not wait to come in by the door. In time of war or pestilence, death comes how it will through every casement, closed or open.