Jeremiah 50:30
Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 9:21For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
Jeremiah 48:15Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into her cities; and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah 50:36A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.
Jeremiah 51:56for the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces: for the LORD is a God of recompences, he shall surely requite.
Revelation 19:18that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit thereon, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, and small and great.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 50:22-33
The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the Lord , and do according to all that I have commanded thee. 22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. 23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! 24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware:… Read the whole commentary →