Jeremiah 15:8

Modern English Version

Their widows will increase before Me more than the sand of the seas; I will bring against them, against the mother of a young man, a destroyer at noonday; I will suddenly bring down on her sorrow and terrors.

Cross References

Isaiah 3:25

Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.

Isaiah 3:26

Her gates shall lament and mourn, and she, being desolate, shall sit on the ground.

Isaiah 4:1

And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel, only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach.”

Jeremiah 16:3

For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who brought them in this land:

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore, deliver up their children to the famine and pour out their blood by the power of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children and become widows and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

Jeremiah 22:7

I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars and cast them into the fire.

Jeremiah 4:16

“Report it to the nations, now!” Indeed, proclaim against Jerusalem: “Besiegers come from a far country, and lift their voices against the cities of Judah.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion out of the forest will slay them, and a wolf from the deserts will destroy them; a leopard will watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backslidings have increased.

Jeremiah 6:26

O daughter of my people, gird yourself with sackcloth and wallow in ashes. Mourn as for an only son, a most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

Lamentations 5:3

We have become orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

Ezekiel 22:25

There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured souls. They have taken the treasure and precious things. They have made many widows in her midst.

Hosea 4:5

You will stumble in the day, and the prophet also will stumble with you in the night, and I will destroy your mother.

Luke 21:35

For as a snare it will come on all those who dwell on the surface of the whole earth.