Jeremiah 15:8

New International Reader's Version

I will increase the number of their widows. There will be more of them than the grains of sand on the seashore. At noon I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of the young men among my people. All at once I will bring down on them great suffering and terror.

Cross References

Isaiah 3:25

Jerusalem, your men will be killed by swords. Your soldiers will die in battle.

Isaiah 3:26

The city of Zion will be very sad. Like a widow, she will lose everything. She will sit on the ground and mourn.

Isaiah 4:1

At that time seven women will grab hold of one man. They’ll say to him, “We will eat our own food. We’ll provide our own clothes. Just let us become your wives. Take away our shame!”

Jeremiah 16:3

Here is the Lord’s message about the children born in this place. He says about them and their parents,

Jeremiah 18:21

So let their children die of hunger. Let my enemies be killed in war. Let their wives lose their children and husbands. Let their men be put to death. Let their young men be killed in battle.

Jeremiah 22:7

I will send destroyers against you. All of them will come with their weapons. They will cut up your fine cedar beams. They will throw them into the fire.

Jeremiah 4:16

“Tell the nations. Make an announcement concerning Jerusalem. Say, ‘An army will attack Judah. It is coming from a land far away. It will shout a war cry against the cities of Judah.

Jeremiah 5:6

So a lion from the forest will attack them. A wolf from the desert will destroy them. A leopard will hide and wait near their towns. It will tear to pieces anyone who dares to go out. Again and again they have refused to obey the Lord. They have turned away from him many times.

Jeremiah 6:26

My people, put on the clothes of sadness. Roll among the ashes. Mourn with bitter weeping just as you would mourn for an only son. The one who is going to destroy us will come suddenly.

Lamentations 5:3

Our fathers have been killed. Our mothers don’t have husbands.

Ezekiel 22:25

Ezekiel, the princes of the land are like a roaring lion that tears its food apart. They eat people up. They take treasures and other valuable things. They cause many women in the land to become widows.

Hosea 4:5

You trip and fall day and night. And the prophets fall down along with you. So I will destroy your nation. She is the one who gave birth to you.

Luke 21:35

That day will come on every person who lives on the whole earth.