Jeremiah 9:21

New International Version

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.

Cross References

Jeremiah 6:11

But I am full of the wrath of the Lord, and I cannot hold it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street and on the young men gathered together; both husband and wife will be caught in it, and the old, those weighed down with years.

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.

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.

Isaiah 40:30

Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;

Jeremiah 6:21

Therefore this is what the Lord says: “I will put obstacles before this people. Parents and children alike will stumble over them; neighbors and friends will perish.”

Jeremiah 18:21

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.

Jeremiah 44:7

“Now this is what the Lord God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Why bring such great disaster on yourselves by cutting off from Judah the men and women, the children and infants, and so leave yourselves without a remnant?

Jeremiah 50:30

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

Joel 2:9

They rush upon the city; they run along the wall. They climb into the houses; like thieves they enter through the windows.

Amos 6:9

If ten people are left in one house, they too will die.

Jeremiah 7:33

Then the carcasses of this people will become food for the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

Jeremiah 8:2

They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped. They will not be gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground.

Amos 5:2

“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again, deserted in her own land, with no one to lift her up.”

Zephaniah 1:17

“I will bring such distress on all people that they will grope about like those who are blind, because they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their entrails like dung.