Jeremiah 9:21
19 For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”
20 Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.
For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.
22 Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”
23 This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.
- ASV
- For 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.
- DARBY
- For death is come up through our windows, is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from the street, the young men from the broadways.
- BLB
- For death has come up into our windows; it enters into our fortresses, to cut off the child from outside, the young men from the squares.
- ÅB
- For døden stiger opp i våre vinduer, kommer inn i våre palasser, den vil utrydde de små barn på gatene, de unge menn på torvene.
- OTB
- For døden har kommet opp gjennom våre vinduer og har trengt inn i våre festninger; den har fjernet barna fra gatene og de unge mennene fra torgene.
- B1930
- For døden stiger op i våre vinduer, kommer inn i våre palasser, den vil utrydde de små barn på gatene, de unge menn på torvene.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 6:11
But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.
Read in context2 Chronicles 36:17
So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,
Read in contextJeremiah 15:7
I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.
Read in contextEzekiel 9:5–6
And as I listened, He said to the others, “Follow him through the city and start killing; do not show pity or spare anyone!
Read in contextEzekiel 21:14–15
‘So then, son of man, prophesy and strike your hands together. Let the sword strike two times, even three. It is a sword that slays, a sword of great slaughter closing in on every side!
Read in contextAmos 6:10–11
And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”
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