Jeremiah 18:21

Good News Translation

But now, Lord, let their children starve to death; let them be killed in war. Let the women lose their husbands and children; let the men die of disease and the young men be killed in battle.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

So the Lord brought the king of Babylonia to attack them. The king killed the young men of Judah even in the Temple. He had no mercy on anyone, young or old, man or woman, sick or healthy. God handed them all over to him.

Psalm 63:10

They will be killed in battle, and their bodies eaten by wolves.

Psalm 63:11

Because God gives him victory, the king will rejoice. Those who make promises in God's name will praise him, but the mouths of liars will be shut.

Exodus 22:24

and I will become angry and kill you in war. Your wives will become widows, and your children will be fatherless.

Isaiah 13:18

With their bows and arrows they will kill the young men. They will show no mercy to babies and take no pity on children.

Isaiah 9:16

Those who lead these people have misled them and totally confused them.

Isaiah 9:17

And so the Lord will not let any of the young men escape, and he will not show pity on any of the widows and orphans, because all the people are godless and wicked and everything they say is evil. Yet even so the Lord's anger will not be ended, but his hand will still be stretched out to punish.

Jeremiah 12:3

But, Lord, you know me; you see what I do and how I love you. Drag these evil people away like sheep to be butchered; guard them until it is time for them to be slaughtered.

Jeremiah 14:16

The people to whom they have said these things will be killed in the same way. Their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, and there will be no one to bury them. This will happen to all of them—including their wives, their sons, and their daughters. I will make them pay for their wickedness.”

Jeremiah 15:7

In every town in the land I threw you to the wind like straw. I destroyed you, my people, I killed your children because you did not stop your evil ways.

Jeremiah 15:8

There are more widows in your land than grains of sand by the sea. I killed your young men in their prime and made their mothers suffer. I suddenly struck them with anguish and terror.

Jeremiah 50:30

So its young men will be killed in the city streets, and all its soldiers will be destroyed on that day. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Jeremiah 9:21

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

Lamentations 1:15

“The Lord laughed at all my strongest soldiers; He sent an army to destroy my young men. He crushed my people like grapes in a wine press.

Lamentations 5:3

Our fathers have been killed by the enemy, and now our mothers are widows.

Ezekiel 16:38

I will condemn you for adultery and murder, and in my anger and fury I will punish you with death.

Ezekiel 22:25

The leaders are like lions roaring over the animals they have killed. They kill the people, take all the money and property they can get, and by their murders leave many widows.

Amos 4:10

“I sent a plague on you like the one I sent on Egypt. I killed your young men in battle and took your horses away. I filled your nostrils with the stink of dead bodies in your camps. Still you did not come back to me.

Deuteronomy 32:25

War will bring death in the streets; terrors will strike in the homes. Young men and young women will die; neither babies nor old people will be spared.

2 Timothy 4:14

Alexander the metalworker did me great harm; the Lord will reward him according to what he has done.

1 Samuel 15:33

Samuel said, “As your sword has made many mothers childless, so now your mother will become childless.” And he cut Agag to pieces in front of the altar in Gilgal.