Jeremiah 9:21

Jeremiah Grieves for His People

²¹ For death has come through our windows,
Has entered our palaces,
To kill off _c the children - ₁ no longer to be outside!
And the young men - ₂ no longer on the streets!

1. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 36:17
   Therefore He brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, on the aged or the weak; He gave them all into his hand.
   Jeremiah 6:11
   Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD. I am weary of holding it in. "I will pour it out on the children outside, And on the assembly of young men together; For even the husband shall be taken with the wife, The aged with him who is full of days.
   Jeremiah 18:21
   Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, And pour out their blood By the force of the sword; Let their wives become widows And bereaved of their children. Let their men be put to death, Their young men be slain By the sword in battle.
   Ezekiel 9:5
   To the others He said in my hearing, "Go after him through the city and kill; do not let your eye spare, nor have any pity.
   Ezekiel 9:6
   Utterly slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary." So they began with the elders who were before the temple.
   

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