Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 9:21

21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entred into our palaces, to cut off the children from without , and the young men from the streets.

The unavoidableness of the ruine is expressed metaphorically, Ezek. 21.14. chap. 6.5. most likely alluding to the violent, and universal storming of a City, chap. 5.10. wherein there is no respect had to Sex, Youth, or Age. Several other allusions see Assemb. Annot. The Chaldeans are here understood by death, as bringing death wherever they come, a metonymy of the Effect.

No safety within or without the Enemy shall cut off all, not only those at home, but even those, that are conversing or playing in the Streets, which most commonly Young men, and Children are chap. 6.11.