Jeremiah 18:21

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

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.

Psalm 63:10

But those who seek my life will come to ruin; they shall go down to the depths of the netherworld!

Psalm 63:11

Those who would hand over my life to the sword shall become the prey of jackals!

Exodus 22:24

If you lend money to my people, the poor among you, you must not be like a money lender; you must not demand interest from them.

Isaiah 13:18

With their bows they shall shatter the young men, And the fruit of the womb they shall not spare, nor shall their eye take pity on children.

Isaiah 9:16

That is why the Lord does not spare their young men, and their orphans and widows he does not pity; For they are totally impious and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this, his wrath is not turned back, his hand is still outstretched!

Isaiah 9:17

For wickedness burns like fire, devouring brier and thorn; It kindles the forest thickets, which go up in columns of smoke.

Jeremiah 12:3

Lord, you know me, you see me, you have found that my heart is with you. Pick them out like sheep for the butcher, set them apart for the day of slaughter.

Jeremiah 14:16

The people to whom they prophesy shall be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and the sword. No one shall bury them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour out upon them their own wickedness.

Jeremiah 15:7

I winnowed them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land; I have bereaved, destroyed my people; they have not turned from their evil ways.

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows were more numerous before me than the sands of the sea. I brought against the mother of youths the destroyer at midday; Suddenly I struck her with anguish and terror.

Jeremiah 50:30

Therefore their young men shall fall in the squares, all their warriors shall be stilled on that day— oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:21

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

Lamentations 1:15

All my valiant warriors my Lord has cast away; He proclaimed a feast against me to crush my young men; My Lord has trodden in the wine press virgin daughter Judah.

Lamentations 5:3

We have become orphans, without fathers; our mothers are like widows.

Ezekiel 16:38

I will inflict on you the sentence of adultery and murder; I will bring on you bloody wrath and jealous anger.

Ezekiel 22:25

A conspiracy of its princes is like a roaring lion tearing prey; they devour people, seizing their wealth and precious things, making many widows within her.

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.

Deuteronomy 32:25

Out in the street the sword shall bereave, and at home the terror For the young man and the young woman alike, the nursing babe as well as the gray beard.

2 Timothy 4:14

Alexander the coppersmith did me a great deal of harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds.

1 Samuel 15:33

And Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” Then he cut Agag to pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.