Jeremiah 49:26
For on that day its young men will die in its streets, all its defenders will be killed, declares the Lord of Hosts.
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25Why isn't the city that is praised deserted, the city that made me happy?
27I'm going to set fire to the walls of Damascus; that will burn down the fortresses of Ben-hadad.
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:21Death has slipped in through our windows; it has come into our fortresses. It has killed the children playing in the streets and the young people gathering in the town squares.
Jeremiah 50:30As a result her young men will be killed in the streets; all her soldiers will die that day, declares the Lord.
Lamentations 2:21The dead, young and old, lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and young women, have been killed by the sword. You killed them when you were angry; you have slaughtered them without mercy.
Amos 4:10I sent a plague on you like I did in Egypt. I killed your young men in battle; I took away your horses; I made you smell the stench of dead bodies in your camps. But still you did not return to me, declares the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 49:24-28
The Judgment of Damascus. ( b. c. 595.) 23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are faint hearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. 24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail. 25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy! 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day,… Read the whole commentary →