Jeremiah 18:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore 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.

Deliver

2 Timothy 4:14

Let their wives

Lamentations 5:3

Let their young

General references

Psalm 109:9

Proverbs 17:13

Lamentations 5:3

Bible References

Deliver

"But, the LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause."

But you, LORD, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his works,

Let their wives

It shall happen, when they tell you, 'Where shall we go forth?' Then you shall tell them, 'Thus says the LORD: "Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.

For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land:

and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, The nursing infant with the gray-haired man.

We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows.

Let their young

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

therefore thus says 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;

Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand.

"I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven't returned to me," says the LORD.

General references

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows.