Jeremiah 9:21

New American Bible - revised edition

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

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.

Isaiah 40:30

Though young men faint and grow weary, and youths stagger and fall,

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 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 44:7

Now thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why inflict so great an evil upon yourselves, cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, not leaving yourselves even a remnant?

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 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 6:21

Therefore, thus says the Lord: See, I will place before this people obstacles to trip them up; Parents and children alike, neighbors and friends shall perish.

Jeremiah 7:33

The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and beasts of the earth, which no one will drive away.

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.

Joel 2:9

They charge the city, they run upon the wall, they climb into the houses; Through the windows they enter like thieves.

Amos 5:2

She is fallen, to rise no more, virgin Israel; She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.

Amos 6:9

Should there remain ten people in a single house, these shall die.

Zephaniah 1:17

I will hem the people in till they walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the Lord; And their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their bowels like dung.