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 tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.

But you, O LORD, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.

Now Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!

Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds.

Let their wives

And when they ask you, 'Where shall we go?' you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD: "'Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity.'

For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning the mothers who bore them and the fathers who fathered them in this land:

and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

Outdoors the sword shall bereave, and indoors terror, for young man and woman alike, the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

Let their young

For death has come up into our windows; it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.

therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine,

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

"I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, and carried away your horses, and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils; yet you did not return to me," declares the LORD.

General references

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!

If anyone returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.

We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.