Jeremiah 18:21

New Century Version

So now, let their children starve, and let their enemies kill them with swords. Let their wives lose their children and husbands. Let the men from Judah be put to death and the young men be killed with swords in battle.

Cross References

Amos 4:10

“I sent disasters against you, as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with swords, and your horses were taken from you. I made you smell the stink from all the dead bodies, but still you did not come back to me,” says the Lord.

Lamentations 5:3

We are like orphans with no father; our mothers are like widows.

Jeremiah 15:8

There are more widows than grains of sand in the sea. I brought a destroyer at noontime against the mothers of the young men of Judah. I suddenly brought pain and fear on the people of Judah.

Jeremiah 9:21

Death has climbed in through our windows and has entered our strong cities. Death has taken away our children who play in the streets and the young men who meet in the city squares.

Deuteronomy 32:25

In the streets the sword will kill; in their homes there will be terror. Young men and women will die, and so will babies and gray-haired men.

Exodus 22:24

And I will be very angry and kill you in war. Then your wives will become widows, and your children will become orphans.

2 Timothy 4:14

Alexander the metalworker did many harmful things against me. The Lord will punish him for what he did.

Jeremiah 12:3

But you know my heart, Lord. You see me and test my thoughts about you. Drag the evil people away like sheep to be butchered. Set them aside for the day of killing.

2 Chronicles 36:17

So God brought the king of Babylon to attack them. The king killed the young men even when they were in the Temple. He had no mercy on the young men or women, the old men or those who were sick. God handed all of them over to Nebuchadnezzar.

1 Samuel 15:33

Samuel said to him, “Your sword made other mothers lose their children. Now your mother will have no children.” And Samuel cut Agag to pieces before the Lord at Gilgal.

Psalm 63:10

They will be killed with swords and eaten by wild dogs.

Isaiah 9:17

So the Lord is not happy with the young people, nor will he show mercy to the orphans and widows. All the people are separated from God and are very evil; they all speak lies. But the Lord is still angry; his hand is still raised to strike down the people.

Isaiah 13:18

Their soldiers will shoot the young men with arrows; they will show no mercy on children, nor will they feel sorry for little ones.

Jeremiah 14:16

And the people to whom the prophets speak will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem. There they will die from hunger and from an enemy’s sword. And no one will be there to bury them, or their wives, or their sons, or their daughters. I will punish them.

Jeremiah 15:7

I have separated the people of Judah with my pitchfork and scattered them at the city gates of the land. My people haven’t changed their ways. So I have destroyed them and taken away their children.

Jeremiah 50:30

So her young men will be killed in her streets. All her soldiers will die on that day,” says the Lord.

Lamentations 1:15

“The Lord has rejected all my mighty men inside my walls. He brought an army against me to destroy my young men. As if in a winepress, the Lord has crushed the capital city of Judah.

Ezekiel 16:38

I will punish you as women guilty of adultery or as murderers are punished. I will put you to death because I am angry and jealous.

Ezekiel 22:25

Like a roaring lion that tears the animal it has caught, Israel’s rulers make evil plans. They have destroyed lives and have taken treasure and valuable things. They have caused many women to become widows.

Psalm 63:11

But the king will rejoice in his God. All who make promises in his name will praise him, but the mouths of liars will be shut.

Isaiah 9:16

Those who led the people led them in the wrong direction, and those who followed them were destroyed.