Jeremiah 50:30
For this cause her young men will be falling in her streets, and all her men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord.
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Jeremiah 9:21For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.
Jeremiah 48:15He who makes Moab waste has gone up against her; and the best of her young men have gone down to their death, says the King, whose name is the Lord of armies.
Jeremiah 50:36A sword is on the men of pride, and they will become foolish: a sword is on her men of war, and they will be broken.
Jeremiah 51:56For the waster has come on her, even on Babylon, and her men of war are taken, their bows are broken: for the Lord is a rewarding God, and he will certainly give payment.
Revelation 19:18So that you may take for your food the flesh of kings, and of captains, and of strong men, and of horses and of those who are seated on them, and the flesh of all men, free and unfree, small and great.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 50:22-33
The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the Lord , and do according to all that I have commanded thee. 22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. 23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! 24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware:… Read the whole commentary →