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, O Lord of hosts, who judges righteously,
Who tries the feelings and the heart,
Let me see Your vengeance on them,
For to You have I committed my cause.

But You know me, O Lord;
You see me;
And You examine my heart’s attitude toward You.
Drag them off like sheep for the slaughter
And set them apart for a day of carnage!

When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, 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 me much harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds.

Let their wives

And it shall be that when they say to you, ‘Where should we go?’ then you are to tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord:
“Those destined for death, to death;
And those destined for the sword, to the sword;
And those destined for famine, to famine;
And those destined for captivity, to captivity.”’

For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bear them, and their fathers who beget them in this land:

and My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

‘Outside the sword will bereave,
And inside terror—

Both young man and virgin,

The nursling with the man of gray hair.

We have become orphans without a father,
Our mothers are like widows.

Let their young

For death has come up through our windows;
It has entered our palaces
To cut off the children from the streets,
The young men from the town squares.

therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, “Behold, I am about to punish them! The young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters will die by famine;

Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand.

“I sent a plague among you after the manner of Egypt;
I slew your young men by the sword along with your captured horses,
And I made the stench of your camp rise up in your nostrils;
Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.

General references

Let his children be fatherless
And his wife a widow.

He who returns evil for good,

Evil will not depart from his house.

We have become orphans without a father,
Our mothers are like widows.