Lamentations 2:21

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Both young and old are lying on the ground in the streets. My young women and young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger, slaughtering without compassion.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

So he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans,  who killed their fit young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. He had no pity on young men or young women, elderly or aged; he handed them all over to him.

Zechariah 11:6

Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration. ‘Instead, I will turn everyone over to his neighbour and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not rescue it from their hand.’

Lamentations 3:43

‘You have covered yourself in anger and pursued us; you have killed without compassion.

Jeremiah 13:14

I will smash them against each other, fathers and sons alike #– #this is the Lord’s declaration. I will allow no mercy, pity, or compassion to keep me from destroying them.” ’

Lamentations 2:17

The Lord has done what he planned; he has accomplished his decree, which he ordained in days of old. He has demolished without compassion, letting the enemy gloat over you and exalting the horn of your adversaries.

Lamentations 2:2

Without compassion  the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In his wrath he has demolished the fortified cities  of Daughter Judah. He brought them to the ground and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.

Lamentations 1:15

The Lord has rejected all the mighty men within me. He has summoned an army  against me to crush my young warriors. The Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah like grapes in a winepress.

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore, hand their children over to famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, their husbands slain by deadly disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

Amos 4:10

I sent plagues like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I caused the stench of your camp to fill your nostrils, yet you did not return to me. This is the  Lord’s declaration.

Ezekiel 9:10

But as for me, I will not show pity or spare them.  I will bring their conduct down on their own heads.’

Ezekiel 8:18

Therefore I will respond with wrath.  I will not show pity or spare them.  Though they call loudly in my hearing,  I will not listen to them.’

Ezekiel 7:9

I will not look on you with pity or spare you. I will punish you for your ways and for your detestable practices within you. Then you will know that it is I, the Lord, who strikes.

Ezekiel 7:4

I will not look on you with pity or spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for your detestable practices within you. Then you will know that I am the  Lord.’

Ezekiel 5:11

‘Therefore, as I live’ #– #this is the declaration of the Lord God  #– #‘I will withdraw and show you no pity, because you have defiled my sanctuary  with all your abhorrent acts and detestable practices.  Yes, I will not spare you.

Lamentations 1:18

The Lord is just, for I have rebelled against his command. Listen, all you people; look at my pain. My young women and young men have gone into captivity.

Jeremiah 51:22

With you I will smash man and woman; with you I will smash the old man and the youth; with you I will smash the young man and the young woman.

Jeremiah 21:7

Afterwards #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #King Zedekiah of Judah, his officers, and the people #– #those in this city who survive the plague, the sword, and the famine #– #I will hand over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon,  to their enemies, yes, to those who intend to take their lives. He will put them to the sword; he won’t spare them or show pity or compassion.”

Jeremiah 11:22

Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies says: ‘I am about to punish them. The young men will die by the sword; their sons and daughters will die by famine.

Jeremiah 9:21

for Death  has climbed through our windows; it has entered our fortresses, cutting off children from the streets, young men from the squares.

Jeremiah 6:11

But I am full of the  Lord’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. Pour it out on the children in the street, on the gathering of young men as well. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old with the very old.

Isaiah 27:11

When its branches dry out, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, for they are not a people with understanding. Therefore their Maker  will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not be gracious to them.

Esther 3:13

Letters were sent by couriers  to each of the royal provinces telling the officials to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jewish people #– #young and old, women and children #– #and plunder their possessions on a single day,  the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and attack the Amalekites and completely destroy everything they have.  Do not spare them. Kill men and women, infants and nursing babies, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.” ’

Joshua 6:21

They completely destroyed  everything in the city with the sword #– #every man and woman, both young and old, and every ox, sheep, and donkey.

Deuteronomy 28:50

a ruthless nation, showing no respect for the old and not sparing the young.

Deuteronomy 32:25

Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, there will be terror; the young man and the young woman will be killed, the infant and the grey-haired man.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion   mourn, for no one comes to the appointed festivals. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she herself is bitter.

Amos 8:13

In that day the beautiful young women, the young men also, will faint from thirst.

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear a cry like a woman in labour, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child. The cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands: ‘Woe is me, for my life is weary because of the murderers! ’

Jeremiah 9:20

Now hear the word of the  Lord, you women. Pay attention to   the words from his mouth. Teach your daughters a lament and one another a dirge,

Ezekiel 24:21

Say to the house of Israel, “This is what the Lord God says: I am about to desecrate my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the desire of your heart. Also, the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.