Jeremiah 9:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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.' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ For death is come up through our windows: it is entered into our houses, to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets.

Jeremiah 9:21 Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man or ancient: he gave them all into his hand.

Isaiah 40:30

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

Jeremiah 15:7

And I have fanned them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them of children, I have destroyed my people; they have not returned from their ways.

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle.

Jeremiah 44:7

Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining;

Jeremiah 50:30

Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 6:11

Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

Jeremiah 6:21

Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people: and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

Jeremiah 7:33

And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.

Jeremiah 8:2

and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

Joel 2:9

They leap upon the city; they run upon the wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in at the windows like a thief.

Amos 5:2

The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

Amos 6:9

And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

Zephaniah 1:17

And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as dung.