Jeremiah 18:21

God's Word

Now, hand their children over to famine. Pour out their ⌞blood⌟ by using your sword. Then their wives will become childless widows. Their husbands will be put to death. Their young men will be struck down in battle.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

So he had the Babylonian king attack them and execute their best young men in their holy temple. He didn’t spare the best men or the unmarried women, the old people or the sick people. God handed all of them over to him.

Psalm 63:10

They will be cut down by swords. Their dead bodies will be left as food for jackals.

Psalm 63:11

But the king will find joy in God. Everyone who takes an oath by God will brag, but the mouths of liars will be shut.

Exodus 22:24

I will become angry and have you killed in combat. Then your wives and children will become widows and orphans.

Isaiah 13:18

But their bows will smash the youth. They’ll have no compassion for babies, nor will they look with pity on children.

Isaiah 9:16

Those who guide these people lead them astray. Those who are guided by them will be destroyed.

Isaiah 9:17

That is why the Lord isn’t happy with their young men, nor will he show compassion for their orphans and widows. Every one of them is a godless evildoer, and every mouth speaks foolishness. Even after all this, his anger will not disappear, and he is still ready to use his power.

Jeremiah 12:3

You know me, O Lord. You see me and test my devotion to you. Drag them away like sheep to be slaughtered. Prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Jeremiah 14:16

The people they prophesy to will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem. They will be victims of famines and wars. No one will bury them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters. I will pour on them the destruction that they deserve.

Jeremiah 15:7

“I will separate them with a winnowing  shovel at the city gates. I will make them childless. I will destroy my people because they will not change their ways.

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows will be more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashore. At noontime I will send a destroyer against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring anguish and terror to them.

Jeremiah 50:30

That is why their young men will die in the streets, and all their soldiers will be silenced that day,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:21

Death has come through our windows and entered our palaces. Death has cut down the children in the streets and the young men in the marketplaces.

Lamentations 1:15

The Lord has treated all the warriors inside my ⌞walls⌟ with contempt. He called an army to defeat my young men. The Lord trampled the people of Judah in a winepress.

Lamentations 5:3

We are orphans without a father. Our mothers are like widows.

Ezekiel 16:38

I will punish you the same way that those who are guilty of prostitution and murder are punished. I will give you the death penalty in my fury and burning anger.

Ezekiel 22:25

Your princes are like roaring lions who tear their prey into pieces. They eat people and take their treasures and precious belongings. They turn many women into widows.

Amos 4:10

I sent plagues on you as I did to Egypt. With swords I killed your best young men along with your captured horses. I made the stench from your camps fill your noses. And you still didn’t return to me, declares the Lord.

Deuteronomy 32:25

Foreign wars will kill off their children, and even at home there will be horrors. Young men and young women alike will die as well as nursing babies and gray-haired men.

2 Timothy 4:14

Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will pay him back for what he did.

1 Samuel 15:33

But Samuel said, “As your sword made women childless, so your mother will be made childless among women.” And Samuel cut Agag in pieces in the presence of the Lord at Gilgal.