Jeremiah 49:26
Therefore her young men fall in her broad places, || And all the men of war are cut off in that day, || A declaration of YHWH of Hosts.
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25How it is not left—the city of praise, || The city of My joy!
27And I have kindled a fire against the wall of Damascus, || And it consumed palaces of Ben-Hadad!”
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:21For death has come up into our windows, || It has come into our palaces, || To cut off the suckling from outside, || Young men from the broad places.
Jeremiah 50:30Therefore her young men fall in her broad places, || And all her men of war are cut off in that day,” || A declaration of YHWH.
Lamentations 2:21Lain on the earth [in] out-places have young and old, || My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword, || You have slain in a day of Your anger, || You have slaughtered—You have not pitied.
Amos 4:10“I have sent among you pestilence by the way of Egypt, || I have slain your choice ones by sword, || With your captive horses, || And I cause the stink of your camps to come up—Even into your nostrils, || And you have not turned back to Me,” || A declaration of YHWH.
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 →