Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
The young
General references
Bible References
Sword
Leviticus 26:36
As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring fearfulness in their hearts in the land of their enemies; and a sound of a windblown leaf shall pursue them, and they shall flee [like] flight {before} a sword, and they shall fall, but there shall not be a pursuer.
Isaiah 30:16
and you said, "No! For we will flee on horses!" Therefore you shall flee! And, "We will ride on swift horses!" Therefore your pursuers shall be swift!
Jeremiah 9:21
For death has come into our windows, it has entered into our fortresses, to cut off [the] children from [the] streets, [the] young men from [the] public squares.
Lamentations 1:20
See, O Yahweh, that {I am in distress}; {my stomach} is in torment, my heart has turned inside me because I have certainly rebelled. From outside a sword brings bereavement, inside the house [it is] like death.
Ezekiel 7:15
The sword {is outside}, and the plague and the famine {are inside}; [the one] who [is] in the field will die by the sword, and [the one] who [is] in the city, famine and plague will devour him.
2 Corinthians 7:5
For even [when] we arrived in Macedonia, our body had no rest, but we were afflicted in every [way]--quarrels outside, fears within.
The young
Lamentations 2:19
"Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches; pour out your heart like water, before the face of the Lord. Lift to him your hands, for the life of your children, who faint in starvation, at the head of all streets."
Lamentations 4:4
The tongue of the nursling cleaves to its palate in thirst. Children beg [for] food, {no one lays it out before them}.
General references
Jeremiah 48:43
Dread, and pit, and a trapping net [are] against you, O inhabitant of Moab," {declares} Yahweh.
Jeremiah 51:22
And I smash man and woman with you, and I smash [the] old man and [the] boy with you, and I smash [the] young man and [the] young woman with you.
Ezekiel 7:15
The sword {is outside}, and the plague and the famine {are inside}; [the one] who [is] in the field will die by the sword, and [the one] who [is] in the city, famine and plague will devour him.
Amos 8:13
In that day the beautiful young women and the young men will faint because of thirst.