Jeremiah 9:21
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
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.
22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory 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
Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
Read in context2 Chronicles 36:17
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
Read in contextJeremiah 15:7
And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.
Read in contextEzekiel 9:5–6
And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
Read in contextEzekiel 21:14–15
Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.
Read in contextAmos 6:10–11
And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.
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