Jeremiah 18:21

Bible in Basic English 1965

For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

So he sent against them the king of the Chaldaeans, who put their young men to death with the sword in the house of their holy place, and had no pity for any, young man or virgin, old man or white-haired: God gave them all into his hands.

Psalm 63:10

They will be cut off by the sword; they will be food for foxes.

Psalm 63:11

But the king will have joy in God; everyone who takes an oath by him will have cause for pride; but the false mouth will be stopped.

Exodus 22:24

And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

Isaiah 13:18

In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body.

Isaiah 9:16

For the guides of this people are the cause of their wandering from the right way, and those who are guided by them come to destruction.

Isaiah 9:17

For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 12:3

But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.

Jeremiah 14:16

And the people to whom they are prophets will be pushed out dead into the streets of Jerusalem, because there is no food, and because of the sword; and they will have no one to put their bodies into the earth, them or their wives or their sons or their daughters: for I will let loose their evil-doing on them.

Jeremiah 15:7

And I have sent a cleaning wind on them in the public places of the land; I have taken their children from them; I have given my people to destruction; they have not been turned from their ways.

Jeremiah 15:8

I have let their widows be increased in number more than the sand of the seas: I have sent against them, against the mother and the young men, one who makes waste in the heat of the day, causing pain and fears to come on her suddenly.

Jeremiah 50:30

For this cause her young men will be falling in her streets, and all her men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:21

For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.

Lamentations 1:15

The Lord has made sport of all my men of war in me, he has got men together against me to send destruction on my young men: the virgin daughter of Judah has been crushed like grapes under the feet of the Lord.

Lamentations 5:3

We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.

Ezekiel 16:38

And you will be judged by me as women are judged who have been untrue to their husbands and have taken life; and I will let loose against you passion and bitter feeling.

Ezekiel 22:25

Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her.

Amos 4:10

I have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your horses; I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

Deuteronomy 32:25

Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.

2 Timothy 4:14

Alexander the copper-worker did me much wrong: the Lord will give him the reward of his works:

1 Samuel 15:33

And Samuel said, As your sword has made women without children, so now your mother will be without children among women. And Agag was cut up by Samuel, bone from bone, before the Lord in Gilgal.