Jeremiah 49:26
Therefore fall do her young men in her broad places, And all the men of war are cut off in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.
Young's Literal Translation
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In Context
25How is it not left — the city of praise, The city of my joy!
27And I have kindled a fire against the wall of Damascus, And it consumed palaces of Ben-Hadad!'
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:21For death hath come up into our windows, It hath come into our palaces, To cut off the suckling from without, Young men from the broad places.
Jeremiah 50:30Therefore fall do her young men in her broad places, And all her men of war are cut off in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah.
Lamentations 2:21Lain on the earth [in] out-places have young and old, My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword, Thou hast slain in a day of Thine anger, Thou hast slaughtered — Thou hast not pitied.
Amos 4:10I have sent among you pestilence by the way of Egypt, I have slain by sword your choice ones, With your captive horses, And I cause the stink of your camps to come up — even into your nostrils, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 49:24-28
The Judgment of Damascus. ( b. c. 595.) 23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are faint hearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. 24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail. 25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy! 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day,… Read the whole commentary →