Jeremiah 18:21

New International Version

So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives be made childless and widows; let their men be put to death, their young men slain by the sword in battle.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians, who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and did not spare young men or young women, the elderly or the infirm. God gave them all into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar.

Psalm 63:10

They will be given over to the sword and become food for jackals.

Psalm 63:11

But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by God will glory in him, while the mouths of liars will be silenced.

Exodus 22:24

My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.

Isaiah 13:18

Their bows will strike down the young men; they will have no mercy on infants, nor will they look with compassion on children.

Isaiah 9:16

Those who guide this people mislead them, and those who are guided are led astray.

Isaiah 9:17

Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men, nor will he pity the fatherless and widows, for everyone is ungodly and wicked, every mouth speaks folly. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

Jeremiah 12:3

Yet you know me, Lord; you see me and test my thoughts about you. Drag them off like sheep to be butchered! Set them apart for the day of slaughter!

Jeremiah 14:16

And the people they are prophesying to will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them, their wives, their sons and their daughters. I will pour out on them the calamity they deserve.

Jeremiah 15:7

I will winnow them with a winnowing fork at the city gates of the land. I will bring bereavement and destruction on my people, for they have not changed their ways.

Jeremiah 15:8

I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. At midday I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men; suddenly I will bring down on them anguish and terror.

Jeremiah 50:30

Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets; all her soldiers will be silenced in that day,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:21

Death has climbed in through our windows and has entered our fortresses; it has removed the children from the streets and the young men from the public squares.

Lamentations 1:15

“The Lord has rejected all the warriors in my midst; he has summoned an army against me to crush my young men. In his winepress the Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah.

Lamentations 5:3

We have become fatherless, our mothers are widows.

Ezekiel 16:38

I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and who shed blood; I will bring on you the blood vengeance of my wrath and jealous anger.

Ezekiel 22:25

There is a conspiracy of her princes within her like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they devour people, take treasures and precious things and make many widows within her.

Amos 4:10

“I sent plagues among you as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.

Deuteronomy 32:25

In the street the sword will make them childless; in their homes terror will reign. The young men and young women will perish, the infants and those with gray hair.

2 Timothy 4:14

Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him for what he has done.

1 Samuel 15:33

But Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel put Agag to death before the Lord at Gilgal.