Jeremiah 18:21 “Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of t…”

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore, deliuer vp their children to famine, and let them drop away by the force of the sworde, and let their wiues be robbed of their children, and be widowes: and let their husbands be put to death, and let their yong men be slayne by the sword in the battell.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle,

Bible in Basic English

For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

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Cross references

“deliver”

Psalm 109:9–20 Jeremiah 11:20–23 Jeremiah 12:3 Jeremiah 20:1–6 2 Timothy 4:14 Jeremiah 20:11

Psalm 109:9–20 · BSB

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

Jeremiah 11:20–23 · BSB

O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.

Jeremiah 12:3 · BSB

But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.

Jeremiah 20:1–6 · BSB

When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer and the chief official in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,

2 Timothy 4:14 · BSB

Alexander the coppersmith did great harm to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.

Jeremiah 20:11 · BSB

But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never…

“let their wives”

Jeremiah 15:8 Exodus 22:24 Deuteronomy 32:25 Lamentations 5:3 Jeremiah 15:2 Jeremiah 15:3

Jeremiah 15:8 · BSB

I 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.

Exodus 22:24 · BSB

My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.

Deuteronomy 32:25 · BSB

Outside, 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.

Lamentations 5:3 · BSB

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

Jeremiah 15:2 · BSB

If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those…

Jeremiah 15:3 · BSB

I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

“let their young”

Jeremiah 9:21 Amos 4:10 2 Chronicles 36:17 Jeremiah 11:22

Jeremiah 9:21 · 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.

Amos 4:10 · BSB

“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 LOR…

2 Chronicles 36:17 · BSB

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 gave them all into the hand of Ne…

Jeremiah 11:22 · BSB

So 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

20Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.

22Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.

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