Jeremiah 9:21 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²¹ For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ For death has come up into our windows; it has entered into our palaces, cutting off the children from outdoors and the young men from the streets.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ 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.

Common English Bible

²¹ Death has climbed through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to eliminate children from the streets, the youth from the squares.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ 'For death has climbed through our windows. It has entered our houses to perish the little children from the outdoors, the youths from the streets.' "

Jeremiah 9:21 Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

2 But in the first year d of Cyrus king of the Persians, to fulfil the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by the mouth of Jeremias, the Lord stirred up the heart of Cyrus king of the Persians who commanded it to be proclaimed through all his kingdom, and by writing also, saying:

Isaiah 40:30

The coppersmith striking with the hammer encouraged him that forged at that time, saying: It is ready for soldering: and he strengthened it with nails, that it should not be moved.

Jeremiah 15:7

5 O Lord, thou knowest, remember me, and visit me, and defend me from them that persecute me, do not defend me in thy patience: know that for thy sake I have sufferred reproach.

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Ennom, but the valley of slaughter.

Jeremiah 44:7

5 Then all the men that knew that their wives sacrificed to other gods: and all the women of whom there stood by a great multitude, and all the people of them that dwelt in the land of Egypt in Phatures, answered Jeremias, saying:

Jeremiah 50:30

8 A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: because it is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things.

Jeremiah 6:11

9 Hear, O earth: Behold I will bring evils upon this people, the fruits of their own thoughts: because they have not heard my words, and they have cast away my law.

Jeremiah 6:21

9 The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the fire, the founder hath melted in vain: for their wicked deeds are not consumed.

Jeremiah 7:33

The kite in the air hath known her time: the turtle, and the swallow, and the stork have observed the time of their coming: but my people have not known the judgment of the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:2

0 Therefore I will give their women to strangers, their fields to others for an inheritance: because from the least even to the greatest all follow covetousness: from the prophet even to the priest, all deal deceitfully.

Joel 2:9

7 Between the porch and the altar the priests the Lord's ministers shall weep, and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare thy people: and give not thy inheritance to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Why should they say among the nations: Where is their God?

Amos 5:2

0 They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have abhorred him that speaketh perfectly.

Amos 6:9

The Lord had pity upon this: It shall not be, said the Lord.

Zephaniah 1:17

And it shall be the portion of him that shall remain of the house of Juda, there they shall feed: in the houses of Ascalon they shall rest in the evening: because the Lord their God will visit them, and bring back their captivity.