Jeremiah 15:8

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Many women will lose their husbands. There will be more widows than there is sand in the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noontime. The destroyer will attack the mothers of the young men of Judah. I will bring pain and fear on the people of Judah. I will make this happen very quickly.

Cross References

Isaiah 3:25

Your men will be killed with swords. Your heroes will die in war.

Luke 21:35

It will come as a surprise to everyone on earth.

Jeremiah 5:6

So a lion from the forest will attack them. A wolf from the desert will kill them. A leopard is hiding near their cities, to tear to pieces anyone who comes out. That’s because the people have sinned again and again. Many times they have wandered away from God.

Jeremiah 4:16

“Report it to this nation. Spread the news to the people in Jerusalem. Enemies are coming from a faraway country. They are shouting words of war against the cities of Judah.

Isaiah 3:26

There will be crying and sadness in the meeting places by the city gates. Jerusalem will sit there empty, like a woman who has lost everything to thieves and robbers and now just sits on the ground and cries.

Isaiah 4:1

At that time seven women will grab one man and say, “Please marry us! We will supply our own food and make our own clothes. You won’t have to do anything else if you let us wear your name and take away our shame.”

Jeremiah 16:3

This is what the Lord says about the sons and daughters who are born in the land of Judah and about their mothers and fathers:

Jeremiah 18:21

So now make their children starve to death! Let their enemies kill them with swords. Let their wives lose their children and husbands. Let their men die from disease, and let their young men be killed in battle.

Jeremiah 22:7

I will send men to destroy the palace, each armed with weapons. They will cut up your strong, beautiful cedar beams and throw them into the fire.

Lamentations 5:3

We have become orphans. We have no father. Our mothers have become like widows.

Ezekiel 22:25

The prophets in Jerusalem are making evil plans. They are like a lion—it roars when it begins to eat the animal it caught. They have destroyed many lives. They have taken many valuable things and made widows of many of the women in Jerusalem.

Hosea 4:5

You priests will fall in the daytime. And at night the prophet will also fall with you. I will also destroy your mother.

Jeremiah 6:26

My people, put on sackcloth and roll in the ashes. Cry loudly for the dead. Cry as if you lost an only son. Do this because the destroyer will come against us very quickly.