Jeremiah 9:21

because people will be dying [PRS] in your houses and in palaces. There will be no more children playing in the streets, there will be no more young men gathering in the city squares/marketplaces.

Translation for Translators

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

20You women, listen to what Yahweh says [MTY]. Pay attention to his words [DOU]. Teach your daughters to wail. Teach each other how to sing funeral songs,

22There will be corpses scattered across the fields like dung; their dead bodies will lie there like [SIM] grain that has been cut by reapers/farmers, and there will be no one still alive to bury them.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 6:11So now I am extremely angry, like Yahweh is angry, and I cannot restrain it any longer.” So Yahweh said to me, “Tell everyone that you are very angry with them. Tell the children in the streets and the young men who gather together. Tell the men and their wives; tell the very old people [DOU], also.

Jeremiah 8:2They will take out their bones from their graves and dishonor them by scattering them on the ground under the sun and the moon and the stars— those are the gods which my people loved and served and worshiped. No one will gather up their bones and bury them again; they will remain scattered on the ground like dung.

Ezekiel 9:5While I was listening, he said to the other six men, “Follow the man wearing the white robe, and kill people. Do not pity them or act mercifully toward them.

Amos 5:2“You are like [MET] a young woman, but in spite of that, you will certainly be struck down and you will never get up again! You will lie on the ground, abandoned, and there will be no one to help you stand up.”

Zephaniah 1:17Because you sinned against Yahweh, he will cause you to experience great distress; you will walk around groping like [SIM] blind people do. Your blood will flow from your bodies like [SIM] water, and your corpses will lie on the ground and rot [SIM].

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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