Lamentations 2:21

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

My people, both young and old, lie dead in the streets. Because you were angry, my young men and women were brutally slaughtered.

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.

Esther 3:13

The letters were taken by messengers to every part of the kingdom, and this is what was said in the letters: On the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month, all Jewish men, women, and children are to be killed. And their property is to be taken.

Isaiah 27:11

When broken branches fall to the ground, women pick them up to feed the fire. But these people are so stupid that the God who created them will show them no mercy.

Jeremiah 11:22

But I will punish them. Their young men will die in battle, and their children will starve to death.

Jeremiah 13:14

Then I will smash them against each other like jars. I will have no pity on the young or the old, and they will all be destroyed. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Jeremiah 18:21

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.

Jeremiah 4:31

I heard groaning and crying. Was it a woman giving birth to her first child? No, it was Jerusalem. She was gasping for breath and begging for help. “I'm dying!” she said. “They have murdered me.”

Jeremiah 51:22

as well as men and women, young and old,

Jeremiah 6:11

Your anger against Judah flames up inside me, and I can't hold it in much longer. Don't hold back my anger! Let it sweep away everyone— the children at play and all adults, young and old alike.

Jeremiah 9:20

“We ask you women to pay attention to what the LORD says. We will teach you a funeral song that you can teach your daughters and friends:

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 1:18

The LORD was right, but I refused to obey him. Now I ask all of you to look at my sufferings— even my young people have been dragged away.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn because no one travels there to celebrate the festivals. The city gates are deserted; priests are weeping. Young women are raped; Zion is in sorrow!

Lamentations 2:17

The LORD has done everything that he had planned and threatened long ago. He destroyed you without mercy and let your enemies boast about their powerful forces.

Lamentations 2:2

The LORD had no mercy! He destroyed the homes of Jacob's descendants. In his anger he tore down every walled city in Judah; he toppled the nation together with its leaders, leaving them in shame.

Lamentations 3:43

Anger is written all over you, as you pursue and slaughter us without showing pity.

Ezekiel 24:21

he is ready to destroy the temple in which you take such pride and which makes you feel so safe. Your children who now live in Jerusalem will be killed.

Ezekiel 5:11

Your disgusting sins have made my temple unfit as a place to worship me. So I swear by my own life that I will turn my back on you and show you no pity.

Ezekiel 7:4

that I will show no pity. I will punish you for the evil you've done, and you will know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 7:9

Your sins are so terrible, that you'll get no mercy from me. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have punished you.

Ezekiel 8:18

So in my fierce anger, I will punish them without mercy and refuse to help them when they cry out to me.”

Ezekiel 9:10

And so I will not have pity on them or forgive them. They will be punished for what they have done.”

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!

Amos 8:13

Your beautiful young women and your young men will faint from thirst.

Zechariah 11:6

Tend those sheep because I, the LORD, will no longer have pity on the people of this earth. I'll turn neighbour against neighbour and make them slaves of a king. They will bring disaster on the earth, and I'll do nothing to rescue any of them.

Deuteronomy 28:50

They won't show any mercy, and they will have no respect for old people or pity for children.

Deuteronomy 32:25

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

Joshua 6:21

They killed everyone, men and women, young and old, everyone except Rahab and the others in her house. They even killed every cow, sheep, and donkey. Joshua said to the two men who had been spies, “Rahab kept you safe when I sent you to Jericho. We promised to protect her and her family, and we will keep that promise. Now go into her house and bring them out.” The two men went into Rahab's house and brought her out, along with her father and mother, her brothers, and her other relatives. Rahab and her family had to stay in a place just outside the Israelite army camp. But later they were allowed to live among the Israelites, and her descendants still do. The Israelites took the silver and gold and the things made of bronze and iron and put them with the rest of the treasure that was kept at the LORD's house. Finally, they set fire to Jericho and everything in it.

1 Samuel 15:3

“Go and attack the Amalekites! Destroy them and all their possessions. Don't have any pity. Kill their men, women, children, and even their babies. Slaughter their cattle, sheep, camels, and donkeys.”