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 mind and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for unto you have I revealed my cause.

But you, O LORD, know me: you have seen me, and tested my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

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

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:

Let their wives

And it shall come to pass, if they say unto you, Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.

For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bore them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

And my wrath shall grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

The sword outside, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the nursing child also with the man of gray hairs.

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Let their young

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.

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 upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that was stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.

I have sent among you a plague after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stench of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have you not returned unto me, says the LORD.

General references

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Whosoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.