Jeremiah 18:21

The Scriptures 2009

So give their children over to scarcity of food, and hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become widows and bereaved of their children. Let their men be killed to death, their young men be stricken by the sword in battle.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

Therefore He brought against them the sovereign of the Kasdim, and he killed their young men with the sword in the House of their set-apart place, and had no compassion on young man or maiden, on the aged or the weak – He gave all into his hand.

Psalm 63:10

They are handed over To the power of the sword; They become a portion for jackals.

Psalm 63:11

But let the sovereign rejoice in Elohim; Let everyone who swears by Him exult; For the mouth of those speaking lies is stopped.

Exodus 22:24

and My wrath shall burn and I shall kill you with the sword, your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

Isaiah 13:18

“And bows dash the young to pieces, and they have no compassion on the fruit of the womb, their eye spares no children.

Isaiah 9:16

For the leaders of this people lead them astray, and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.

Isaiah 9:17

Therefore יהוה does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is defiled and evil, and every mouth speaks foolishness. With all this His displeasure has not turned back, and His hand is still stretched out.

Jeremiah 12:3

But You have known me, O יהוה. You see me, and You have tried my heart toward You. Draw them away like sheep for slaughter, and separate them for the day of slaughter.

Jeremiah 14:16

And the people to whom they are prophesying shall be thrown out in the streets of Yerushalayim because of the scarcity of food and the sword, with no one to bury them – them nor their wives, their sons nor their daughters. For I shall pour their evil on them.’

Jeremiah 15:7

“And I shall winnow them with a winnowing fan in the gates of the land. I shall bereave, I shall destroy My people. They would not turn back from their ways.

Jeremiah 15:8

“Their widows shall be more numerous than the sand of the seas. I shall bring against them, against the mother of the young men, a ravager at noon. I shall cause agitation and sudden alarm to fall on her, suddenly.

Jeremiah 50:30

“Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets, and all her men of battle shall perish in that day,” declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 9:21

For death has come through our windows, has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets, and the young men from the squares.

Lamentations 1:15

“יהוה has trodden down all my strong men in my midst, He has called an appointed time Against me to crush my young men. יהוה has trodden down as in a winepress The maiden daughter of Yehuḏah.

Lamentations 5:3

We have become orphans, fatherless, Our mothers are like widows.

Ezekiel 16:38

“And I shall judge you with judgments of adulteresses and shedders of blood. And I shall bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

Ezekiel 22:25

“There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst, like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured life, they have taken wealth and precious matters, they have made many widows in her midst.

Amos 4:10

“I have sent among you a plague in the way of Mitsrayim. I have killed your young men with a sword, along with your captured horses. And I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils. But you did not turn back to Me,” declares יהוה.

Deuteronomy 32:25

“The sword bereaves from the outside, And fear from within, Both young man and maiden, Nursing child with the man of grey hairs.

2 Timothy 4:14

Alexander the coppersmith did many evils to me. The Master shall repay him according to his works.

1 Samuel 15:33

And Shemu’ĕl said, “As your sword bereaved women, let your mother be bereaved among women too.” Shemu’ĕl then hewed Aḡaḡ to pieces before יהוה in Gilgal.