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 those who are left of you -- I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away hath pursued them, and they have fled -- flight from a sword -- and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing.
Isaiah 30:16
And ye say, No, for on a horse we flee? Therefore ye flee, And on the swift we ride! Therefore swift are your pursuers.
Jeremiah 9:21
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.
Lamentations 1:20
See, O Jehovah, for distress is to me, My bowels have been troubled, Turned hath been my heart in my midst, For I have greatly provoked, From without bereaved hath the sword, In the house it is as death.
Ezekiel 7:15
The sword is without, And the pestilence and the famine within, He who is in a field by sword dieth, And he who is in a city, Famine and pestilence devour him.
2 Corinthians 7:5
for also we, having come to Macedonia, no relaxation hath our flesh had, but on every side we are in tribulation, without are fightings, within -- fears;
The young
Lamentations 2:19
Arise, cry aloud in the night, At the beginning of the watches. Pour out as water thy heart, Over against the face of the Lord, Lift up unto Him thy hands, for the soul of thine infants, Who are feeble with hunger at the head of all out-places.
Lamentations 4:4
Cleaved hath the tongue of a suckling unto his palate with thirst, Infants asked bread, a dealer out they have none.
General references
Jeremiah 48:43
Fear, and a snare, and a gin, are for thee, O inhabitant of Moab -- an affirmation of Jehovah,
Jeremiah 51:22
And I have broken in pieces by thee man and woman, And I have broken in pieces by thee old and young, And I have broken in pieces by thee young man and virgin,
Ezekiel 7:15
The sword is without, And the pestilence and the famine within, He who is in a field by sword dieth, And he who is in a city, Famine and pestilence devour him.
Amos 8:13
In that day faint do the fair virgins, And the young men, with thirst.