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.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsFor 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.
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.
For 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.
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.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.
- Author
- Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
- Date
- Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile