Jeremiah 11:22
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Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine: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.
In other translations
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine: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.
Hebrew words
לָכֵןlakhen<to> thereforeH3651כֹּהkohthusH3541אָמַר'amarhe saysH559יְהוָהyahwehYahwehH3068צְבָאוֹתtzeva'otof hostsH6635הִנְנִיhinihere IH2005פֹקֵדfoked[am] about to visit [judgment]H6485עֲלֵיהֶם'aleihemon themH5921הַבַּחוּרִיםhabachurimthe young menH970יָמֻתוּyamututhey will dieH4191בַחֶרֶבvacherevby the swordH2719בְּנֵיהֶםbeneihemsons theirH1121וּבְנוֹתֵיהֶםuvenoteihemand daughters theirH1323יָמֻתוּyamututhey will dieH4191בָּרָעָב׃bara'avby <the> famineH7458
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Related verses
- Jeremiah 18:21Therefore 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.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.
- 2 Chronicles 36:17Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.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 Nebuchadnezzar,
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15-1615 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: 16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men, 16 hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.
- Jeremiah 9:21For 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.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.
- Lamentations 2:21The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
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