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 armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.

But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.

Now it came to the ears of Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief in authority in the house of the Lord, that Jeremiah was saying these things;

Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.

Alexander the copper-worker did me much wrong: the Lord will give him the reward of his works:

Let their wives

And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as are to be taken away prisoners, to be taken away.

For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:

And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.

We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.

Let their young

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.

So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will send punishment on them: the young men will be put to the sword; their sons and their daughters will come to death through need of food:

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.

I have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your horses; I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

General references

Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.

If anyone gives back evil for good, evil will never go away from his house.

We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.