Jeremiah 18:21

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans from Babylon, who killed their young men with the sword at the house of their sanctuary. He did not spare a young man or virgin, old or aged. God gave all of them into his hand.

Psalm 63:10

They shall fall by the sword; they shall be prey for jackals.

Psalm 63:11

But the king shall rejoice in God; everyone who swears by Him shall glory, for the mouths of those who speak lies shall be stopped.

Exodus 22:24

And My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will become widows, and your children fatherless.

Isaiah 13:18

Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces, and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

Isaiah 9:16

For the leaders of this people cause them to err, and those who are led by them are destroyed.

Isaiah 9:17

Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, nor shall He have mercy on their fatherless and widows; for every one of them is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this His anger is not turned away, and His hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 12:3

But You, O  Lord, know me; You have seen me and tested my heart toward You. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Jeremiah 14:16

The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. And they will have no one to bury them, not them, or their wives, or their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour out their wickedness upon them.

Jeremiah 15:7

I will winnow them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children. I will destroy My people, since they did not repent from their ways.

Jeremiah 15:8

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.

Jeremiah 50:30

Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:21

“For death has come up into our windows; and has entered our palaces, to cut off the children from the streets, and the young men from the squares.”

Lamentations 1:15

The Lord has trampled underfoot all my mighty men in my midst; He has called an assembly against me to crush my young men; The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a winepress.

Lamentations 5:3

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

Ezekiel 16:38

I will judge you as women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged. And I will bring on you the blood of fury and jealousy.

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.

Amos 4:10

Pestilence like that of Egypt I sent against you. By the sword I killed your young men; your horses were taken captive. The stench of your camps I brought up into your nostrils; yet you did not return to Me, says the Lord.

Deuteronomy 32:25

The sword outside and terror within will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant along with the man of gray hair.

2 Timothy 4:14

Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil. May the Lord reward him according to his works.

1 Samuel 15:33

Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.