Jeremiah 9:21

Good News Translation

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.

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.

Isaiah 40:30

Even those who are young grow weak; young people can fall exhausted.

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 18:21

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.

Jeremiah 44:7

“And so I, the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, now ask why you are doing such an evil thing to yourselves. Do you want to bring destruction on men and women, children and babies, so that none of your people will be left?

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 6:11

Your anger against them burns in me too, Lord, and I can't hold it in any longer.” Then the Lord said to me, “Pour out my anger on the children in the streets and on the gatherings of the young people. Husbands and wives will be taken away, and even the very old will not be spared.

Jeremiah 6:21

And so I will make these people stumble and fall. Parents and children will die, and so will friends and neighbors.”

Jeremiah 7:33

The corpses will be food for the birds and wild animals, and there will be no one to scare them off.

Jeremiah 8:2

Instead of being gathered and buried, their bones will be like manure lying on the ground. They will be spread out before the sun, the moon, and the stars, which these people have loved and served, and which they have consulted and worshiped.

Joel 2:9

They rush against the city; they run over the walls; they climb up the houses and go in through the windows like thieves.

Amos 5:2

Virgin Israel has fallen, Never to rise again! She lies abandoned on the ground, And no one helps her up.

Amos 6:9

If there are ten men left in a family, they will die.

Zephaniah 1:17

The Lord says, “I will bring such disasters on the human race that everyone will grope about like someone blind. They have sinned against me, and now their blood will be poured out like water, and their dead bodies will lie rotting on the ground.”