Jeremiah 18:21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Therefore give their children over to famine; hurl them out to the power of the sword; let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be slain by the sword in battle.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their youths with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or young woman, the aged or the feeble; he gave them all into his hand.

Psalm 63:10

they shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be prey for jackals.

Psalm 63:11

But the king shall rejoice in God; all who swear by him shall exult, for the mouths of liars will be stopped.

Exodus 22:24

my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children orphans.

Isaiah 13:18

Their bows will slaughter the young men; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not pity children.

Isaiah 9:16

for those who led this people led them astray, and those who were led by them were left in confusion.

Isaiah 9:17

That is why the Lord did not have pity on their young people or compassion on their orphans and widows, for everyone was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth spoke folly. For all this his anger has not turned away; his hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 12:3

But you, O Lord, know me; you see me and test me; my heart is with you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.

Jeremiah 14:16

And the people to whom they prophesy shall be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword. There shall be no one to bury them—themselves, their wives, their sons, and their daughters—for I will pour out their wickedness upon them.”

Jeremiah 15:7

I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people; they did not turn from their ways.

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows became more numerous than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of youths a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon her suddenly.

Jeremiah 50:30

Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed on that day, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:21

“Death has come up into our windows; it has entered our palaces to cut off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.”

Lamentations 1:15

The Lord has rejected all my warriors in the midst of me; he proclaimed a time against me to crush my young men; the Lord has trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter Judah.

Lamentations 5:3

We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

Ezekiel 16:38

I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged and bring blood upon you in wrath and jealousy.

Ezekiel 22:25

Its princes within it are like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows within it.

Amos 4:10

I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword; I carried away your horses; and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils; yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.

Deuteronomy 32:25

In the street the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers terror for young man and woman alike, nursing child and old gray head.

2 Timothy 4:14

Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will pay him back for his deeds.

1 Samuel 15:33

Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother shall be childless among women.” And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.