Jeremiah 9:21

That death Hath come up through our windows, Hath entered our palaces,—Cutting off The boy from the street, The young men from the broadways.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 hear O ye women the word of Yahweh, And let your ear take in the word of his mouth,—And teach your daughters a wail, Yea each woman—her neighbour, a dirge:—

22Speak thou, Thus, declareth Yahweh, So shall fall the dead bodies of men, Like dung heaps on the face of the field,—And like swaths after the harvestman, With none to gather.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 6:11So then, with the indignation of Yahweh, am I full, I am too weary to hold it in, [I am constrained] to pour it out, upon the boy in the street, and upon the circle of young men, together,—For, even husband with wife, will be captured, The elder with him who is full of days;

Jeremiah 8:2And shall spread them out—To the sun, and To the moon, and To all the host of the heavens, Whom they have loved, And whom they have served, And after whom they have walked, And whom they have sought, And to whom they have bowed themselves down,—They shall not be gathered, Neither shall they be buried, As heaps of dung on the face of the ground, shall they be.

Ezekiel 9:5But unto these, said he in mine ears, Pass along through the city after him and smite,—let not your eye, shield, neither have ye pity:

Amos 5:2She hath fallen—she cannot again rise, the virgin, Israel,—she lieth forsaken on her soil, there is none to raise her up.

Zephaniah 1:17And I will bring distress to mankind, and they shall walk like them who are blind, because, against Yahweh, have they sinned,—and their blood, shall be poured out, as dust, and their bowels like dung.

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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