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The Destruction of Babylon

Jeremiah 50:30

In 11 translations

BSB
Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.
KJV
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
WEB
Therefore her young men will fall in her streets. All her men of war will be brought to silence in that day,” says Yahweh.
ASV
Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah.
LSV
Therefore her young men fall in her broad places, || And all her men of war are cut off in that day,” || A declaration of YHWH.
YLT
Therefore fall do her young men in her broad places, And all her men of war are cut off in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah.
DBY
Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets; and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith Jehovah.
DRC
Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets: and all her men of war shall hold their peace in that day, saith the Lord.
GNV
Therefore shall her yong men fall in the streetes, and al her men of warre shalbe destroied in that day, sayeth the Lord.
JPS
Therefore shall her young men fall in her broad places, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith the LORD.
LXXE27:30
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her warriors shall be cast down, saith the Lord.

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Original-language editions

WLC
לָכֵ֛ן יִפְּל֥וּ בַחוּרֶ֖יהָ בִּרְחֹבֹתֶ֑יהָ וְכָל־אַנְשֵׁ֨י מִלְחַמְתָּ֥הּ יִדַּ֛מּוּ בַּיּ֥וֹם הַה֖וּא נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃
LXX-Br27:30
Διατοῦτο πεσοῦνται οἱ νεανίσκοι αὐτῆς ἐν ταῖς πλατείαις αὐτῆς, καὶ πάντες οἱ ἄνδρες οἱ πολεμισταὶ αὐτῆς ῥιφήσονται, εἶπε Κύριος.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Jeremiah 49:26For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
  • 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.
  • Jeremiah 18:21Therefore, 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…
  • Jeremiah 48:15Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
  • Jeremiah 51:3–4Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction! And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets.
  • Revelation 19:18so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”
  • Jeremiah 51:56–57For a destroyer is coming against her— against Babylon. Her warriors will be captured, and their bows will be broken, for the LORD is a God of retribution; He will repay in full. I will make her princes and wise men…
  • Isaiah 13:15–18Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword. Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished. Behold, I will…
  • Revelation 6:15Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
  • Jeremiah 50:36A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A sword is against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.

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  • 27:30 in some Bibles
  • 50:30 in most Bibles

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