Jeremiah 9:21

New International Reader's Version

Death has climbed in through our windows. It has entered our forts. Death has removed the children from the streets. It has taken the young men out of the market.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

The Lord brought the king of the Babylonians against them. The Babylonian army killed their young people with their swords at the temple. They didn’t spare young men or young women. They didn’t spare the old people or weak people either. God handed all of them over to Nebuchadnezzar.

Isaiah 40:30

Even young people become worn out and get tired. Even the best of them trip and fall.

Jeremiah 15:7

I will stand at the city gates of the land. I will separate the straw from the grain. I will destroy my people. I will bring great sorrow on them. They have not changed their ways.

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 44:7

The Lord God who rules over all is the God of Israel. He says, “Why do you want to bring all this trouble on yourselves? You are removing from Judah its men and women, its children and babies. Not one of you will be left.

Jeremiah 50:30

You can be sure its young men will fall dead in the streets. All its soldiers will be put to death at that time,” announces the Lord.

Jeremiah 6:11

But the Lord’s anger burns inside me. I can no longer hold it in. The Lord says to me, “Pour out my anger on the children in the street. Pour it out on the young men who are gathered together. Husband and wife alike will be caught in it. So will those who are very old.

Jeremiah 6:21

So the Lord says, “I will bring an army against the people of Judah. Parents and children alike will trip and fall. Neighbors and friends will die.”

Jeremiah 7:33

Then they will not be able to bury the bodies of other people there. So the bodies will become food for birds and wild animals. And no one will scare them away.

Jeremiah 8:2

They will lie outside under the sun, moon and all the stars. All these people had loved and served these things. They had followed them and worshiped them. They had asked them for advice. So the bones of these people will not be gathered up or buried again. Instead, they will be like human waste lying there on the ground.

Joel 2:9

They attack a city. They run along its wall. They climb into houses. They enter through windows like robbers.

Amos 5:2

“The people of Israel have fallen. They will never get up again. They are deserted in their own land. No one can lift them up.”

Amos 6:9

Ten people might be left in one house. If they are, they will die there.

Zephaniah 1:17

I will bring great trouble on all people. So they will feel their way around like blind people. They have sinned against the Lord. Their blood will be poured out like dust. Their bodies will lie rotting on the ground.