Jeremiah 18:21

New Living Translation

So let their children starve! Let them die by the sword! Let their wives become childless widows. Let their old men die in a plague, and let their young men be killed in battle!

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

So the Lord brought the king of Babylon against them. The Babylonians killed Judah’s young men, even chasing after them into the Temple. They had no pity on the people, killing both young men and young women, the old and the infirm. God handed all of them over to Nebuchadnezzar.

Psalm 63:10

They will die by the sword and become the food of jackals.

Psalm 63:11

But the king will rejoice in God. All who swear to tell the truth will praise him, while liars will be silenced.

Exodus 22:24

My anger will blaze against you, and I will kill you with the sword. Then your wives will be widows and your children fatherless.

Isaiah 13:18

The attacking armies will shoot down the young men with arrows. They will have no mercy on helpless babies and will show no compassion for children.”

Isaiah 9:16

For the leaders of the people have misled them. They have led them down the path of destruction.

Isaiah 9:17

That is why the Lord takes no pleasure in the young men and shows no mercy even to the widows and orphans. For they are all wicked hypocrites, and they all speak foolishness. But even then the Lord’s anger will not be satisfied. His fist is still poised to strike.

Jeremiah 12:3

But as for me, Lord, you know my heart. You see me and test my thoughts. Drag these people away like sheep to be butchered! Set them aside to be slaughtered!

Jeremiah 14:16

As for the people to whom they prophesy—their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and war. There will be no one left to bury them. Husbands, wives, sons, and daughters—all will be gone. For I will pour out their own wickedness on them.

Jeremiah 15:7

I will winnow you like grain at the gates of your cities and take away the children you hold dear. I will destroy my own people, because they refuse to change their evil ways.

Jeremiah 15:8

There will be more widows than the grains of sand on the seashore. At noontime I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of young men. I will cause anguish and terror to come upon them suddenly.

Jeremiah 50:30

Her young men will fall in the streets and die. Her soldiers will all be killed,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:21

For death has crept in through our windows and has entered our mansions. It has killed off the flower of our youth: Children no longer play in the streets, and young men no longer gather in the squares.

Lamentations 1:15

“The Lord has treated my mighty men with contempt. At his command a great army has come to crush my young warriors. The Lord has trampled his beloved city like grapes are trampled in a winepress.

Lamentations 5:3

We are orphaned and fatherless. Our mothers are widowed.

Ezekiel 16:38

I will punish you for your murder and adultery. I will cover you with blood in my jealous fury.

Ezekiel 22:25

Your princes plot conspiracies just as lions stalk their prey. They devour innocent people, seizing treasures and extorting wealth. They make many widows in the land.

Amos 4:10

“I sent plagues on you like the plagues I sent on Egypt long ago. I killed your young men in war and led all your horses away. The stench of death filled the air! But still you would not return to me,” says the Lord.

Deuteronomy 32:25

Outside, the sword will bring death, and inside, terror will strike both young men and young women, both infants and the aged.

2 Timothy 4:14

Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm, but the Lord will judge him for what he has done.

1 Samuel 15:33

But Samuel said, “As your sword has killed the sons of many mothers, now your mother will be childless.” And Samuel cut Agag to pieces before the Lord at Gilgal.