Jeremiah 9:21

In 11 translations

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.

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.

WEB

For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.

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.

LSV

For death has come up into our windows, || It has come into our palaces, || To cut off the suckling from outside, || Young men from the broad places.

YLT

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.

DBY

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.

DRC

For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets.

GNV

For death is come vp into our windowes, and is entred into our palaces, to destroy the children without, and the yong men in the streetes.

JPS9:20

'For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from the street, and the young men from the broad places. —

LXXE9:20

For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants without, and the young men from the streets.

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WLC9:20

כִּֽי־עָ֤לָה מָ֨וֶת֙ בְּחַלּוֹנֵ֔ינוּ בָּ֖א בְּאַרְמְנוֹתֵ֑ינוּ לְהַכְרִ֤ית עוֹלָל֙ מִח֔וּץ בַּחוּרִ֖ים מֵרְחֹבֽוֹת׃KJV:Jer.9.21

LXX-Br9:20

Ὅτι ἀνέβη θάνατος διὰ τῶν θυρίδων ὑμῶν, εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὴν γῆν ὑμῶν, τοῦ ἐκτρίψαι νήπια ἔξωθεν, καὶ νεανίσκους ἀπὸ τῶν πλατειῶν.

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• Jeremiah 6:11But 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 and wife will be captured, the old and the very old…
• Ezekiel 9:5–6And as I listened, He said to the others, “Follow him through the city and start killing; do not show pity or spare anyone! Slaughter the old men, the young men and maidens, the women and children; but do not go near…
• 2 Chronicles 36:17So 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…
• 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.
• Amos 6:10–11And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort,…
• Ezekiel 21:14–15‘So then, son of man, prophesy and strike your hands together. Let the sword strike two times, even three. It is a sword that slays, a sword of great slaughter closing in on every side! So that their hearts may melt…

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