Jeremiah 50:30
Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets: and all her men of war shall hold their peace in that day, saith the Lord.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Jeremiah 9:21For 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.
Jeremiah 48:15Moab is laid waste, and they have cast down her cities: and her choice young men are gone down to the slaughter: saith the king, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
Jeremiah 50:36A sword upon her diviners, and they shall be foolish: a sword upon her valiant ones, and they shall be dismayed.
Jeremiah 51:56Because the spoiler is come upon her, that is, upon Babylon, and her valiant men are taken, and their bow is weakened, because the Lord, who is a strong revenger, will surely repay.
Revelation 19:18That you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of tribunes, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all freemen and bondmen, and of little and of 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 →