Jeremiah 9:21 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 9:21

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.

BSB

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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.

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.

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Commentary

4 voices

Ambrose of Milan

FLIGHT FROM THE WORLD 1:3 (397)

Amid so many passions of this body of ours, amid so many enticements of this world, who indeed can keep his footstep safe and undefiled? The eye looks back and leads the mind's perception astray, the ear hears and turns one's attention away, a whiff of fragrance hinders thought, a kiss of the mouth introduces guilt, a touch kindles the fire of passion. "Death has entered in through the window," the prophet said. Your eye is your window.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

For death is come up into our windows,.... Their doors being shut, bolted, and barred, they thought themselves safe, but were not; the Chaldeans scaled their walls, broke in at the tops of their houses, or at their windows, and destroyed them: for the invasion of the enemy, and the manner of their entrance into them, seem to be described.

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Death - The unavoidableness of the ruin is expressed metaphorically, alluding to the storming of a city, wherein there is no respect had to sex, youth, or age.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

For death is come up into our windows - Here Death is personified, and represented as scaling their wall; and after having slain the playful children without, and the vigorous youth employed in the labors of the field, he is now come into the private houses, to destroy the aged and infirm; and into the palaces, to destroy the king and the princes.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
עָ֤לָה	'A.lah	it has come up	H5927 →
מָ֙וֶת֙	ma.vet	death	H4194 →
בְּחַלּוֹנֵ֔ינוּ	be.cha.lo.Nei.nu	in windows our	H2474 →
בָּ֖א	ba'	it has come	H935 →
בְּאַרְמְנוֹתֵ֑ינוּ	be.'ar.me.no.Tei.nu	in fortresses our	H759 →
לְהַכְרִ֤ית	le.hakh.Rit	to cut off	H3772 →
עוֹלָל֙	o.Lal	child[ren]	H5768 →
מִח֔וּץ	mi.Chutz	from [the] street	H2351 →
בַּחוּרִ֖ים	ba.chu.Rim	young men	H970 →
מֵרְחֹבֽוֹת׃	me.re.cho.Vot	from [the] open places	H7339 →

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Where the connections lead

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Through
Jeremiah 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.
leads to
- Jeremiah 51:2
  I will send strangers to Babylon to winnow her and empty her land; for they will come against her from every side in her day of disaster.
- Matthew 3:12
  His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
- Jeremiah 5:3
  O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than…
- Isaiah 41:16
  You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 9:13
  But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
Through
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…
leads to
- Jeremiah 20:9
  If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of…
Through
2 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…
leads to
- Psalms 74:20
  Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
- Ezra 9:7
  From the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings and priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of…

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Jeremiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Jeremiah