Jeremiah 9:21

God's Word

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.

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.

Isaiah 40:30

Even young people grow tired and become weary, and young men will stumble and fall.

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 18:21

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.

Jeremiah 44:7

Now, this is what the Lord God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Why do you bring this terrible disaster on yourselves? Why do you keep destroying men, women, children, and babies from Judah until none are left?

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 6:11

I am filled with the anger of the Lord. I am tired of holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street and on the gangs of young men. A man and his wife will be taken away as well as very old people.

Jeremiah 6:21

This is what the Lord says: I’m going to lay stumbling blocks in front of these people. Parents and children will stumble over them. Neighbors and their friends will die.

Jeremiah 7:33

The dead bodies of these people will become food for birds and animals, and no one will be there to frighten them away.

Jeremiah 8:2

They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon, and all the stars in the sky. These are the things that they had loved, served, gone after, sought, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered or buried, but they will become manure on the ground.

Joel 2:9

They rush into the city. They run along the wall. They climb into houses. They enter through windows like thieves.

Amos 5:2

The people of Israel have fallen, never to rise again. They lie abandoned in their own land. There is no one to help them.

Amos 6:9

If ten people are left in one house, they will die.

Zephaniah 1:17

“I will bring such distress on humans that they will walk like they are blind, because they have sinned against the Lord.” Their blood will be poured out like dust and their intestines like manure.