Jeremiah 9:21

New Living Translation

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.

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.

Isaiah 40:30

Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion.

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 18:21

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!

Jeremiah 44:7

“And now the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, asks you: Why are you destroying yourselves? For not one of you will survive—not a man, woman, or child among you who has come here from Judah, not even the babies in your arms.

Jeremiah 50:30

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

Jeremiah 6:11

So now I am filled with the Lord’s fury. Yes, I am tired of holding it in! “I will pour out my fury on children playing in the streets and on gatherings of young men, on husbands and wives and on those who are old and gray.

Jeremiah 6:21

Therefore, this is what the Lord says: “I will put obstacles in my people’s path. Fathers and sons will both fall over them. Neighbors and friends will die together.”

Jeremiah 7:33

The bodies of my people will be food for the vultures and wild animals, and no one will be left to scare them away.

Jeremiah 8:2

They will spread out their bones on the ground before the sun, moon, and stars—the gods my people have loved, served, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up again or buried but will be scattered on the ground like manure.

Joel 2:9

They swarm over the city and run along its walls. They enter all the houses, climbing like thieves through the windows.

Amos 5:2

“The virgin Israel has fallen, never to rise again! She lies abandoned on the ground, with no one to help her up.”

Amos 6:9

(If there are ten men left in one house, they will all die.

Zephaniah 1:17

“Because you have sinned against the Lord, I will make you grope around like the blind. Your blood will be poured into the dust, and your bodies will lie rotting on the ground.”