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
And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursues.
Isaiah 30:16
But you said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall you flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
Jeremiah 9:21
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.
Lamentations 1:20
Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my soul is troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.
Ezekiel 7:15
The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine inside: he that is in the field shall die by the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
2 Corinthians 7:5
For, when we were come into Macedonia, our body had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
The young
Lamentations 2:19
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
Lamentations 4:4
The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaks it unto them.
General references
Jeremiah 48:43
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, says the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:22
With you also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces old and young; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the maiden;
Ezekiel 7:15
The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine inside: he that is in the field shall die by the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
Amos 8:13
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.