Jeremiah 9:21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“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.”

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.

Isaiah 40:30

Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall exhausted,

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 18:21

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.

Jeremiah 44:7

And now thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves, to cut off man and woman, child and infant, from the midst of Judah, leaving yourselves without a remnant?

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 6:11

But I am full of the wrath of the Lord; I am weary of holding it in. Pour it out on the children in the street and on the gatherings of young men as well; both husband and wife shall be taken, the elderly and those full of days.

Jeremiah 6:21

Therefore thus says the Lord: See, I am laying before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; parents and children together, neighbor and friend shall perish.

Jeremiah 7:33

The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the air and for the animals of the earth, and no one will frighten them away.

Jeremiah 8:2

and they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have followed, and which they have inquired of and worshiped, and they shall not be gathered or buried; they shall be like dung on the surface of the ground.

Joel 2:9

They leap upon the city; they run upon the walls; they climb up into the houses; they enter through the windows like a thief.

Amos 5:2

Fallen, no more to rise, is maiden Israel; forsaken on her land, with no one to raise her up.

Amos 6:9

If ten people remain in one house, they shall die.

Zephaniah 1:17

I will bring such distress upon people that they shall walk like the blind; because they have sinned against the Lord, their blood shall be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.