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Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

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ASV

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle.

KJV

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
לָכֵן֩la.Khen<to> thereforeH3651 →
תֵּ֨ןtengiveH5414 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
בְּנֵיהֶ֜םbe.nei.Hemchildren theirH1121 →
לָרָעָ֗בla.ra.'Avto <the> famineH7458 →
וְהַגִּרֵם֮ve.ha.gi.Remand pour themH5064 →
עַל־'al-overH5921 →
יְדֵי־ye.dei-[the] hands ofH3027 →
חֶרֶב֒che.Rev[the] swordH2719 →
וְתִֽהְיֶ֨נָהve.tih.Ye.nahso they may becomeH1961 →
נְשֵׁיהֶ֤םne.shei.Hemwives theirH802 →
שַׁכֻּלוֹת֙sha.ku.lOtchildlessH7909 →
וְאַלְמָנ֔וֹתve.'al.ma.Notand widowsH490 →
וְאַ֨נְשֵׁיהֶ֔םve.'An.shei.Hemand men theirH582 →
יִֽהְי֖וּyih.Yumay they beH1961 →
הֲרֻ֣גֵיha.Ru.gei[the] slain ofH2026 →
מָ֑וֶתMa.vetdeathH4194 →
בַּח֣וּרֵיהֶ֔םba.Chu.rei.Hemyoung men theirH970 →
מֻכֵּי־mu.kei-[those] struck down ofH5221 →
חֶ֖רֶבChe.rev[the] swordH2719 →
בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה׃ba.mil.cha.Mahin <the> battleH4421 →

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Isaiah 9:17Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.Psalms 63:10They will fall to the power of the sword; they will become a portion for foxes.Psalms 109:9–20May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.Jeremiah 11:22So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.Jeremiah 15:7I 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.Psalms 109:9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.Jeremiah 16:3–4For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:Lamentations 5:3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.Jeremiah 9:21For 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.Amos 4:10“I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.Jeremiah 15:8I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.Deuteronomy 32:25Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.Exodus 22:24My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.Jeremiah 14:16And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.Lamentations 2:21Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.Jeremiah 50:30Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.Ezekiel 16:38And I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and those who shed blood; so I will bring upon you the wrath of your bloodshed and jealousy.Esther 9:5The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did as they pleased to those who hated them.

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The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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