Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.
New American Standard Bible
It has entered our palaces
To cut off the
The young men from the town squares.
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
it has entered our fortresses,
cutting off children from the streets,
young men from the squares.
International Standard Version
For death comes up through our windows; it has come into our palaces to eliminate children from the streets and young men from the town squares.
A Conservative Version
For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces, to cut off the sons from outside, the young men from the streets.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
For death has come up through our windows;
It has entered our palaces,
Cutting off the children from the streets
And the young men from the town squares.
Darby Translation
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.
Julia Smith Translation
For death came up into our windows, it came into our palaces to cut off the child from without, the young men from the streets.
King James 2000
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the squares.
Lexham Expanded Bible
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.
Modern King James verseion
For death has come up into our windows, and has entered into our houses, to cut off the children from outside and the young men from the streets.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Namely, thus: Death is climbing up into our windows, he is come into our houses, to destroy the child before the door, and the young man in the street.
NET Bible
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.'
New Heart English Bible
'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.'
The Emphasized Bible
That death Hath come up through our windows, Hath entered our palaces, - Cutting off The boy from the street, The young men from the broadways.
Webster
For death hath come up into our windows, and hath entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
World English Bible
For death is 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.
Youngs Literal Translation
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.
Interlinear
`alah
Karath
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 9:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Judah's Failures
20 But even now, give ear to the word of the Lord, O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief. 21 For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places. 22 The bodies of men will be falling like waste on the open fields, and like grain dropped by the grain-cutter, and no one will take them up.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:17
So he sent against them the king of the Chaldaeans, who put their young men to death with the sword in the house of their holy place, and had no pity for any, young man or virgin, old man or white-haired: God gave them all into his hands.
Jeremiah 6:11
For this reason I am full of the wrath of the Lord, I am tired of keeping it in: may it be let loose on the children in the street, and on the band of the young men together: for even the husband with his wife will be taken, the old man with him who is full of days.
Jeremiah 15:7
And I have sent a cleaning wind on them in the public places of the land; I have taken their children from them; I have given my people to destruction; they have not been turned from their ways.
Ezekiel 9:5-6
And to these he said in my hearing, Go through the town after him using your axes: do not let your eyes have mercy, and have no pity:
Ezekiel 21:14-15
So then, son of man, be a prophet, and put your hands together with a loud sound, and give two blows with the sword, and even three; it is the sword of those who are wounded, even the sword of the wounded; the great sword which goes round about them.
Amos 6:10-11
And when a man's relation, even the one who is responsible for burning his body, lifting him up to take his bones out of the house, says to him who is in the inmost part of the house, Is there still anyone with you? and he says, No; then he will say, Keep quiet, for the name of the Lord may not be named.