Jeremiah 11:22

New American Bible - revised edition

Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: I am going to punish them. The young men shall die by the sword; their sons and daughters shall die by famine.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

Then he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in their own sanctuary, with compassion for neither young men nor young women, neither the old nor the infirm; all of them he delivered into his power.

Jeremiah 18:21

So now, give their children to famine, deliver them to the power of the sword. Let their wives be childless and widows; let their husbands die of pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.

Jeremiah 21:14

I will punish you—oracle of the Lord— as your deeds deserve! I will kindle a fire in its forest that shall devour all its surroundings.

Jeremiah 44:13

Thus I will punish those who live in Egypt, just as I punished Jerusalem, with sword, hunger, and disease,

Jeremiah 49:26

But now its young men shall fall in its squares, all the warriors destroyed on that day— oracle of the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 9:21

Corpses shall fall like dung in the open field, Like sheaves behind the harvester, with no one to gather them.

Lamentations 2:21

They lie on the ground in the streets, young and old alike; Both my young women and young men are cut down by the sword; You killed them on the day of your wrath, slaughtered without pity.

Amos 4:10

I sent upon you pestilence like that of Egypt; with the sword I killed your young men and your captured horses, and to your nostrils I brought the stench of your camps; Yet you did not return to me— oracle of the Lord.