Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore give their children over to famine, and give them to the hands of those who use the sword. 1 So let their women become bereaved and widows, and their men be killed, and their young men killed by the sword in battle. 1

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Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

In Context

20Will disaster from them really be my reward for being good to them? For they have dug a pit for me. 1 Remember how I stood before you to speak for their welfare, to cause your fury to turn away from them. 1

22Let a distressed shout be heard from their houses, as you suddenly bring raiders against them. 1 For they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden traps for my feet. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:25Outside the sword will bereave, 1 and in the bedrooms terror will do so. 1 It will destroy both young man and virgin, 1 the nursing baby, and the man of gray hairs. 1

Psalms 63:11But the king will rejoice in God; 1 everyone who swears by him will be proud of him, 1 but the mouth of those who speak lies will be stopped up.

Isaiah 9:16Those who lead this people lead them astray, and those who are led by them are swallowed up. 1

Jeremiah 11:20Yet Yahweh of hosts is the righteous judge who examines the heart and the mind. 1 I will witness your vengeance against them, for I have presented my case to you.

Jeremiah 12:3Yet you, Yahweh, know me. You see me and you test my heart toward you. 1 Take them away like sheep to the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter! 1

Jeremiah 15:8I will make their widows number more than the sands of the seashore. Against the mothers of young men I will send 1 the destroyer at noonday. I will make shock and horror suddenly fall on them. 1

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 18:19-23

Conduct of Persecutors; Prophetic Imprecations. ( b. c. 600.) 18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. 19 Give heed to me, O Lord , and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before… Read the whole commentary →

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