Jeremiah 9:21

Catholic Public Domain Version

'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.' "

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

For he led over them the king of the Chaldeans. And he put to death their young men by the sword, in the house of his sanctuary. There was no pity for adolescents, nor virgins, nor the elderly, nor even for the disabled. Instead, he delivered them all into his hands.

Isaiah 40:30

Servants will struggle and fail, and young men will fall into infirmity.

Jeremiah 15:7

And I will scatter them with a winnowing fan at the gates of the land. I have killed and dispersed my people, and yet they have not turned back from their ways.

Jeremiah 18:21

Because of this, give their sons over to famine, and bring them to the hand of the sword. Let their wives be widows without children. And let their husbands be slain by death. Let their youths be stabbed with the sword in battle.

Jeremiah 44:7

And now, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against your own souls, so that, among you, man and woman, child and infant would pass away from the midst of Judah, and so that no remnant at all would be left behind of you?

Jeremiah 50:30

For this reason, her young men will fall in her streets. And all her men of war will be silenced, in that day, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 6:11

For this reason, I have been filled with the fury of the Lord. I labor to bear it. Let it be poured out upon the child outside, or upon a group of young men meeting together. For a man will be taken captive with a woman, an elder will be taken captive with one who is full of days.

Jeremiah 6:21

Therefore, thus says the Lord: "Behold I will bring this people to utter ruin, and they will fall, with their fathers and sons; neighbor and relative will perish together."

Jeremiah 7:33

And the corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the air and for the wild beasts of the land, and there will be no one to drive them away.

Jeremiah 8:2

And they will spread them out before the sun and the moon and the entire army of the heavens, which they have loved, and served, and followed, and which they have sought and adored. They will not be collected, and they will not be buried. They will be like manure upon the face of the earth.

Joel 2:9

They will advance into the city; they will rush through the wall. They will scale the houses; they will go in through the windows, like a thief.

Amos 5:2

The virgin of Israel has been thrown onto her land, there is no one who can raise her up.

Amos 6:9

For if there were ten men remaining in one house, even they will die.

Zephaniah 1:17

And I will trouble men, and they will walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the Lord. And their blood will be poured out like soil, and their bodies like manure.