Jeremiah 18:21

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

But now I am asking you to let their children starve or be killed in war. Let women lose their husbands and sons to disease and violence.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

The LORD sent King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia to attack Jerusalem. Nebuchadnezzar killed the young men who were in the temple, and he showed no mercy to anyone, whether man or woman, young or old. God let him kill everyone in the city.

Psalm 63:10

Swords will run them through, and wild dogs will eat them.

Psalm 63:11

Because of you, our God, the king will celebrate with your faithful followers, but liars will be silent.

Exodus 22:24

In fact, I will get so angry that I will kill your men and make widows of their wives and orphans of their children.

Isaiah 13:18

Their arrows will slaughter the young men; no pity will be shown to babies and children.

Isaiah 9:16

They had led the nation down the wrong path, and the people were confused.

Isaiah 9:17

The Lord was angry with his people and kept punishing them, because they had turned against him. They were evil and spoke foolishly. That's why he did not have pity on their young people or on their widows and orphans.

Jeremiah 12:3

But you know, LORD, how faithful I've always been, even in my thoughts. So drag my enemies away and butcher them like sheep!

Jeremiah 14:16

And everyone who listens to them will be killed, just as they deserve. Their dead bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, because their families will also be dead, and no one will be left to bury them.

Jeremiah 15:7

by scattering you like straw blown by the wind. I will punish you with sorrow and death, because you refuse to change your ways.

Jeremiah 15:8

There will be more widows in Judah than grains of sand on a beach. A surprise attack at midday! And the mothers in Jerusalem mourn for their children.

Jeremiah 50:30

People of Babylon, I, the LORD, promise that even your best soldiers will lie dead in the streets.

Jeremiah 9:21

‘We were in our fortress, but death sneaked in through our windows. It even struck down children at play and our strongest young men.’

Lamentations 1:15

You, LORD, have turned back my warriors and crushed my young heroes. Judah was a woman untouched, but you let her be trampled like grapes in a wine-pit.

Lamentations 5:3

We are like children whose mothers are widows.

Ezekiel 16:38

I will find you guilty of being an unfaithful wife and a murderer, and in my fierce anger I will sentence you to death!

Ezekiel 22:25

Their leaders are like roaring lions, tearing apart their victims. They put people to death, then steal everything of value. Husbands are killed, and many women are left as widows.

Amos 4:10

I did terrible things to you, just as I did to Egypt— I killed your young men in war; I let your horses be stolen, and I made your camp stink with dead bodies. Even then you rejected me. I, the LORD, have spoken!

Deuteronomy 32:25

Young and old alike will be killed in the streets and terrified at home.

2 Timothy 4:14

Alexander, the metalworker, has hurt me in many ways. But the Lord will pay him back for what he has done.

1 Samuel 15:33

But Samuel said, “Agag, you have snatched children from their mothers' arms and killed them. Now your mother will be without children.” Then Samuel chopped Agag to pieces at the place of worship in Gilgal.