Jeremiah 9:20

New American Bible - revised edition

Death has come up through our windows, has entered our citadels, To cut down children in the street, young people in the squares.

Cross References

Job 22:22

Receive instruction from his mouth, and place his words in your heart.

Isaiah 3:16

The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with necks outstretched, Ogling and mincing as they go, their anklets tinkling with every step,

Isaiah 3:4

I will place boys as their princes; the fickle will govern them,

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 23:16

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Do not listen to the words of your prophets, who fill you with emptiness; They speak visions from their own fancy, not from the mouth of the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:28

Let the prophets who have dreams tell their dreams; let those who have my word speak my word truthfully! What has straw to do with wheat? —oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 6:11

But the wrath of the Lord brims up within me, I am weary of holding it in. I will pour it out upon the child in the street, upon the young men gathered together. Yes, husband and wife will be taken, elder with ancient.

Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off your hair and throw it away! on the heights raise a lament; The Lord has indeed rejected and cast off the generation that draws down his wrath.

Jeremiah 8:2

and spread out before the sun, the moon, and the whole host of heaven, which they loved and served, which they followed, consulted, and worshiped. They will not be gathered up for burial, but will lie like dung upon the ground.

Jeremiah 9:12

The Lord said: Because they have abandoned my law, which I set before them, and did not listen to me or follow it,

Lamentations 2:19

Rise up! Wail in the night, at the start of every watch; Pour out your heart like water before the Lord; Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, Who collapse from hunger at the corner of every street.

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.