Jeremiah 9:21

Modern English Version

“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.”

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.

Isaiah 40:30

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall,

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 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 44:7

Now thus says the Lord God of Hosts, the God of Israel: Why are you committing this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, out of Judah, leaving you no one to remain,

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 6:11

Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in. I will pour it out upon the children in the street and upon the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

Jeremiah 6:21

Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together will fall upon them. The neighbor and his friend will perish.

Jeremiah 7:33

The corpses of this people shall be food for the fowl of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and no one will frighten them away.

Jeremiah 8:2

And they will spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped. They will not be gathered or be buried. They will be as dung upon the face of the earth.

Joel 2:9

They rush on the city, they run on the wall; they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like thieves.

Amos 5:2

Fallen, no more to rise is maiden Israel; forsaken on her land, with no one to raise her up.

Amos 6:9

If there remain ten people in one house, they will die.

Zephaniah 1:17

I will bring distress on men, so that they will walk like blind men. Because they have sinned against the Lord, their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.