Jeremiah 9:21

For death has come through our windows; it goes into our palaces. 1 It destroys children from outside, and young men in the city squares. 1

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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

20So you women, hear Yahweh's word; pay attention to the messages that come from his mouth. 1 Then teach your daughters a mourning song, and each neighbor woman a funeral song. 1

22Declare this, 'This is Yahweh's declaration—the corpses of men will fall like dung in the fields, 1 and like grain stalks after the reapers, and there will be no one to gather them.'” 1

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Cross References

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

Jeremiah 8:2Then they will spread them out in the light of the sun and moon and all the stars of the skies; these things in the sky that they have followed and served, that they have walked after and sought, and that they have worshiped. The bones will not be gathered or buried again. They will be like dung on the surface of the earth.

Ezekiel 9:5Then he spoke to the others within my hearing, “Pass through the city after him and kill. Do not let your eyes have compassion, and do not spare

Amos 5:2The virgin Israel has fallen; 1 she will rise no more; 1 she is forsaken on her land; 1 there is no one to raise her up. 1

Zephaniah 1:17For I will bring distress upon mankind, so that they will walk about like blind men 1 since they have sinned against Yahweh. 1 Their blood will be poured out like dust, and their inner parts 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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