Jeremiah 9:21

Speak: Thus saith Hashem, 1 Even the nevilah of adam shall fall 1 like domen (dung) upon the sadeh, 1 and the omer (sheaf) after the kotzer (harvester), 1 and none shall gather them.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

20For mavet (death) is come up into our windows, 1 and is entered into our fortresses, 1 to cut off the olal (children) from the street, 1 and the bochurim from the rechovot. 1

22Thus saith Hashem, Let not the chacham (wise man) glory in his chochmah, neither let the gibbor (mighty man) glory in his gevurah (might), let not the oisher (rich man) glory in his riches;

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Cross References

Jeremiah 6:11Therefore I am full of the chamat Hashem; 1 I am weary with holding in; 1 I will pour it out upon the olal in the street, 1 and upon the assembly of bocherim together; 1 for even the ish with the isha shall be caught, 1 the zaken, those weighed down with yamim (days). 1

Jeremiah 8:2And they shall spread them out before the shemesh, and the yarei'ach, and all the tz'va haShomayim, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have consulted, and whom they have worshiped; they shall not be gathered up, nor be buried in a kever; they shall be like domen upon the surface of ha'adamah.

Ezekiel 9:5And to the others He said in mine hearing, Go ye through the Ir after him, + 9:5 i.e., the man with the scribal kit and strike down; let not your eye have pity, and do not spare;

Amos 5:2The Betulat Yisroel is fallen; 1 she shall no more rise; 1 she is forsaken in her own land; 1 there is none to raise her up. 1

Zephaniah 1:17And I will bring distress upon adam, 1 that they shall walk like ivrim, 1 because they have sinned against Hashem; 1 and their dahm shall be poured out like dust, 1 and their bowels like dung. 1

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 9:13-23

Punishment Predicted. ( b. c. 606.) 12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through? 13 And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; 14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: 15 Therefore… Read the whole commentary →

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