Jeremiah 49:26

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.

General references

Amos 4:10

Bible References

General references

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 her young men will fall in her streets,
And all her men of war will be

silenced in that day,” declares the Lord.

“Let not him who

bends his bow bend it,

Nor let him rise up in his scale-armor;

So do not spare her young men;
Devote all her army to destruction.

On the ground in the streets
Lie young and old;
My virgins and my young men
Have fallen by the sword.
You have slain them in the day of Your anger,
You have slaughtered, not sparing.

“Your wealth, your wares, your merchandise,
Your sailors and your pilots,
Your repairers of seams, your dealers in merchandise
And all your men of war who are in you,
With all your company that is in your midst,
Will fall into the heart of the seas
On the day of your overthrow.

“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.