So he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their fit young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. He had no pity on young men or young women, elderly or aged; he handed them all over to him.
Jeremiah 9:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised for Death has climbed through our windows; it has entered our fortresses, cutting off children from the streets, young men from the squares. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For death has come up into our windows; it has entered into our palaces, cutting off the children from outdoors and the young men from the streets. American Standard Version (1901) For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets. Common English Bible Death has climbed through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to eliminate children from the streets, the youth from the squares. Catholic Public Domain Version 'For death has climbed through our windows. It has entered our houses to perish the little children from the outdoors, the youths from the streets.' " Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For death is come up through our windows: it is entered into our houses, to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets. |
So he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their fit young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. He had no pity on young men or young women, elderly or aged; he handed them all over to him.
I scattered them with a winnowing fork at the city gates of the land. I made them childless; I destroyed my people. They would not turn from their ways.
Therefore, hand their children over to famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, their husbands slain by deadly disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
‘So now, this is what the Lord, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such terrible harm to yourselves? You are cutting off man and woman, infant and nursing baby from Judah, leaving yourselves without a remnant.
Therefore, her young men will fall in her public squares; all the warriors will perish in that day. This is the Lord’s declaration.
But I am full of the Lord’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. Pour it out on the children in the street, on the gathering of young men as well. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old with the very old.
Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am going to place stumbling blocks before these people; fathers and sons together will stumble over them; friends and neighbours will also perish.
The corpses of these people will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land, with no one to scare them away.
They will be exposed to the sun, the moon, and all the stars in the sky, which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshipped. Their bones will not be collected and buried but will become like manure on the soil’s surface.
They storm the city; they run on the wall; they climb into the houses; they enter through the windows like thieves.
She has fallen; Virgin Israel will never rise again. She lies abandoned on her land with no one to raise her up.
I will bring distress on mankind, and they will walk like the blind because they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.