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Jeremiah 9:21

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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.

For death {H4194} is come up {H5927} into our windows {H2474}, and is entered {H935} into our palaces {H759}, to cut off {H3772} the children {H5768} from without {H2351}, and the young men {H970} from the streets {H7339}.

"Death has come up through our windows, it has entered our palaces, it has cut down children in the streets and young people in the public places."

For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

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.

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Cross-References

  • Jeremiah 6:11 (5 votes)

    Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with [him that is] full of days.

  • Ezekiel 9:5 (4 votes)

    ¶ And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:

  • Ezekiel 9:6 (4 votes)

    Slay utterly old [and] young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom [is] the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which [were] before the house.

  • Jeremiah 15:7 (4 votes)

    And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave [them] of children, I will destroy my people, [since] they return not from their ways.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:17 (4 votes)

    Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave [them] all into his hand.

  • Amos 6:10 (3 votes)

    And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that [is] by the sides of the house, [Is there] yet [any] with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.

  • Amos 6:11 (3 votes)

    For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.