Jeremiah 18:21

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.

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  • Ps 109:9-9 : 9 May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow! 10 May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home! 11 May the creditor seize all he owns! May strangers loot his property! 12 May no one show him kindness! May no one have compassion on his fatherless children! 13 May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives! 14 May his ancestors’ sins be remembered by the LORD! May his mother’s sin not be forgotten! 15 May the LORD be constantly aware of them, and cut off the memory of his children from the earth! 16 For he never bothered to show kindness; he harassed the oppressed and needy, and killed the disheartened. 17 He loved to curse others, so those curses have come upon him. He had no desire to bless anyone, so he has experienced no blessings. 18 He made cursing a way of life, so curses poured into his stomach like water and seeped into his bones like oil. 19 May a curse attach itself to him, like a garment one puts on, or a belt one wears continually! 20 May the LORD repay my accusers in this way, those who say evil things about me!
  • Jer 9:21 : 21 ‘Death has climbed in through our windows. It has entered into our fortified houses. It has taken away our children who play in the streets. It has taken away our young men who gather in the city squares.’
  • Jer 15:8 : 8 Their widows will become in my sight more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashores. At noontime I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men. I will cause anguish and terror to fall suddenly upon them.
  • Jer 16:3-4 : 3 For I, the LORD, tell you what will happen to the children who are born here in this land and to the men and women who are their mothers and fathers. 4 They will die of deadly diseases. No one will mourn for them. They will not be buried. Their dead bodies will lie like manure spread on the ground. They will be killed in war or die of starvation. Their corpses will be food for the birds and wild animals.
  • Exod 22:24 : 24 and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.
  • Deut 32:25 : 25 The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.
  • Lam 5:3 : 3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.
  • Amos 4:10 : 10 “I sent against you a plague like one of the Egyptian plagues. I killed your young men with the sword, along with the horses you had captured. I made the stench from the corpses rise up into your nostrils. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking!
  • 2 Tim 4:14 : 14 Alexander the coppersmith did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him in keeping with his deeds.
  • 2 Chr 36:17 : 17 He brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who slaughtered their young men in their temple. He did not spare young men or women, or even the old and aging. God handed everyone over to him.
  • Jer 20:1-6 : 1 Jeremiah is Flogged and Put in A Cell Now Pashhur son of Immer heard Jeremiah prophesy these things. He was the priest who was chief of security in the LORD’s temple. 2 When he heard Jeremiah’s prophecy, he had the prophet flogged. Then he put him in the stocks which were at the Upper Gate of Benjamin in the LORD’s temple. 3 But the next day Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks. When he did, Jeremiah said to him,“The LORD’s name for you is not‘Pashhur’ but‘Terror is Everywhere.’ 4 For the LORD says,‘I will make both you and your friends terrified of what will happen to you. You will see all of them die by the swords of their enemies. I will hand all the people of Judah over to the king of Babylon. He will carry some of them away into exile in Babylon and he will kill others of them with the sword. 5 I will hand over all the wealth of this city to their enemies. I will hand over to them all the fruits of the labor of the people of this city and all their prized possessions, as well as all the treasures of the kings of Judah. Their enemies will seize it all as plunder and carry it off to Babylon. 6 You, Pashhur, and all your household will go into exile in Babylon. You will die there and you will be buried there. The same thing will happen to all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies.’”
  • Jer 20:11-12 : 11 But the LORD is with me to help me like an awe-inspiring warrior. Therefore those who persecute me will fail and will not prevail over me. They will be thoroughly disgraced because they did not succeed. Their disgrace will never be forgotten. 12 O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, you test and prove the righteous. You see into people’s hearts and minds. Pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause.
  • Jer 11:20-23 : 20 So I said,“O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, you are a just judge! You examine people’s hearts and minds. I want to see you pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause.” 21 Then the LORD told me about some men from Anathoth who were threatening to kill me. They had threatened,“Stop prophesying in the name of the LORD or we will kill you!” 22 So the LORD of Heaven’s Armies said,“I will surely punish them! Their young men will be killed in battle. Their sons and daughters will die of starvation. 23 Not one of them will survive. I will bring disaster on those men from Anathoth who threatened you. A day of reckoning is coming for them.”
  • Jer 12:3 : 3 But you, LORD, know all about me. You watch me and test my devotion to you. Drag these wicked men away like sheep to be slaughtered! Appoint a time when they will be killed!
  • Jer 15:2-3 : 2 If they ask you,‘Where should we go?’ tell them the LORD says this:“Those who are destined to die of disease will go to death by disease. Those who are destined to die in war will go to death in war. Those who are destined to die of starvation will go to death by starvation. Those who are destined to go into exile will go into exile.” 3 “I will punish them in four different ways: I will have war kill them. I will have dogs drag off their dead bodies. I will have birds and wild beasts devour and destroy their corpses.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 22:24
    81%

    24and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.

  • Jer 18:22-23
    2 verses
    81%

    22Let cries of terror be heard in their houses when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me and have hidden traps for me to step into.

    23But you, LORD, know all their plots to kill me. Do not pardon their crimes! Do not ignore their sins as though you had erased them! Let them be brought down in defeat before you! Deal with them while you are still angry!

  • Isa 13:15-16
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    81%

    15Everyone who is caught will be stabbed; everyone who is seized will die by the sword.

    16Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives raped.

  • Isa 14:21
    80%

    21Prepare to execute his sons for the sins their ancestors have committed. They must not rise up and take possession of the earth, or fill the surface of the world with cities.”

  • Isa 13:18
    79%

    18Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons; they have no compassion on a person’s offspring, they will not look with pity on children.

  • Lam 2:20-21
    2 verses
    79%

    20ר(Resh)Jerusalem Speaks: Look, O LORD! Consider! Whom have you ever afflicted like this? Should women eat their offspring, their healthy infants? Should priest and prophet be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?

    21ש(Sin/Shin) The young boys and old men lie dead on the ground in the streets. My young women and my young men have fallen by the sword. You killed them when you were angry; you slaughtered them without mercy.

  • Jer 11:22
    79%

    22So the LORD of Heaven’s Armies said,“I will surely punish them! Their young men will be killed in battle. Their sons and daughters will die of starvation.

  • Jer 14:16
    77%

    16The people to whom they are prophesying will die through war and famine. Their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem and there will be no one to bury them. This will happen to the men and their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out on them the destruction they deserve.”

  • Ps 109:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!

    10May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!

  • Ezek 23:46-47
    2 verses
    77%

    46“For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Bring up an army against them and subject them to terror and plunder.

    47That army will pelt them with stones and slash them with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses.

  • Num 31:17
    77%

    17Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has been intimate with a man in bed.

  • Jer 15:7-9
    3 verses
    76%

    7The LORD continued,“In every town in the land I will purge them like straw blown away by the wind. I will destroy my people. I will kill off their children. I will do so because they did not change their behavior.

    8Their widows will become in my sight more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashores. At noontime I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men. I will cause anguish and terror to fall suddenly upon them.

    9The mother who had seven children will grow faint. All the breath will go out of her. Her pride and joy will be taken from her in the prime of their life. It will seem as if the sun had set while it was still day. She will suffer shame and humiliation. I will cause any of them who are still left alive to be killed in war by the onslaughts of their enemies,” says the LORD.

  • Jer 18:20
    76%

    20Should good be paid back with evil? Yet they are virtually digging a pit to kill me. Just remember how I stood before you pleading on their behalf to keep you from venting your anger on them.

  • Jer 51:3
    76%

    3Do not give her archers time to string their bows or to put on their coats of armor. Do not spare any of her young men. Completely destroy her whole army.

  • Ezek 16:40
    76%

    40They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.

  • Jer 9:21
    76%

    21‘Death has climbed in through our windows. It has entered into our fortified houses. It has taken away our children who play in the streets. It has taken away our young men who gather in the city squares.’

  • Jer 44:7
    76%

    7“So now the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, asks,‘Why will you do such great harm to yourselves? Why should every man, woman, child, and baby of yours be destroyed from the midst of Judah? Why should you leave yourselves without a remnant?

  • Ps 21:10
    75%

    10You destroy their offspring from the earth, their descendants from among the human race.

  • Deut 32:25
    75%

    25The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.

  • Lam 4:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9ט(Tet) Those who died by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, those who waste away, struck down from lack of food.

    10י(Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.

  • Ezek 9:5-7
    3 verses
    75%

    5While I listened, he said to the others,“Go through the city after him and strike people down; do not let your eye pity nor spare anyone!

    6Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women– wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!” So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple.

    7He said to them,“Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!” So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
    75%

    9Look, our fathers died violently and our sons, daughters, and wives were carried off because of this.

  • Ezek 23:10
    75%

    10They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became notorious among women, and they executed judgments against her.

  • Jer 5:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave.

    17They will eat up your crops and your food. They will kill off your sons and your daughters. They will eat up your sheep and your cattle. They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. Their weapons will batter down the fortified cities you trust in.

  • Deut 20:13
    75%

    13The LORD your God will deliver it over to you and you must kill every single male by the sword.

  • 2 Chr 36:17
    75%

    17He brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who slaughtered their young men in their temple. He did not spare young men or women, or even the old and aging. God handed everyone over to him.

  • Ps 69:24-25
    2 verses
    75%

    24Pour out your judgment on them! May your raging anger overtake them!

    25May their camp become desolate, their tents uninhabited!

  • Jer 19:9
    74%

    9I will reduce the people of this city to desperate straits during the siege imposed on it by their enemies who are seeking to kill them. I will make them so desperate that they will eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and the flesh of one another.”’”

  • Amos 9:4
    74%

    4Even when their enemies drive them into captivity, from there I will command the sword to kill them. I will not let them out of my sight; they will experience disaster, not prosperity.”

  • Jer 50:37
    74%

    37Destructive forces will come against her horses and her chariots. Destructive forces will come against all the foreign troops within her; they will be as frightened as women! Destructive forces will come against her treasures; they will be taken away as plunder!

  • Ps 78:64
    74%

    64Their priests fell by the sword, but their widows did not weep.

  • Ezek 21:15
    74%

    15So hearts melt with fear and many stumble. At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter. Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter!

  • Jer 6:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11I am as full of anger as you are, LORD, I am tired of trying to hold it in.”The LORD answered,“Vent it, then, on the children who play in the street and on the young men who are gathered together. Husbands and wives are to be included, as well as the old and those who are advanced in years.

    12Their houses will be turned over to others as will their fields and their wives. For I will unleash my power against those who live in this land,”says the LORD.

  • Hos 13:16
    74%

    16(14:1) Samaria will be held guilty, because she rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword, their infants will be dashed to the ground– their pregnant women will be ripped open.

  • Isa 3:25
    74%

    25Your men will fall by the sword, your strong men will die in battle.

  • Jer 50:30
    74%

    30So her young men will fall in her city squares. All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,” says the LORD.

  • Hos 9:12
    74%

    12Even if they raise their children, I will take away every last one of them. Woe to them! For I will turn away from them.