For 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.
Death is come up into our windows - the death-inflicting soldiery, finding the doors closed, burst in by the windows.
To cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets. Death cannot be said to enter the windows, to cut off the children in the streets; but to cut them off so as no more to play in the streets without (cf. Zechariah 8:5): cf. Jeremiah 6:11 above, on the destruction of the children and young men.