Jeremiah 51:22
With you I will smash each man and woman; with you I will smash the old and the young. 1 With you I will smash the young men and the virgin girls. 1
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21With you I will smash horses and their riders; with you I will smash chariots and their drivers. 1
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
2 Chronicles 36:17So God brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and had no compassion on young men or virgins, old men or the gray-haired. God gave them all into his hand.
Isaiah 13:18Their bows will strike down the young men; 1 they will have no mercy on infants and they will not look with pity on children. 1
Jeremiah 6:11But I am filled with Yahweh's fury. I am tired of holding it in. He said, to me, “Pour it out on the children in the streets 1 and on the groups of young men. For every man will be taken away with his wife; 1 and every old person heavy with years. 1
Lamentations 2:21Both the young and the old lie on the dust of the streets. 1 My young women and my young men have fallen by the sword; 1 you have slaughtered them without taking pity on them. 1
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 51:2-59
The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her… Read the whole commentary →