Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
That death Hath come up through our windows, Hath entered our palaces, - Cutting off The boy from the street, The young men from the broadways.
New American Standard Bible
It has entered our palaces
To cut off the
The young men from the town squares.
King James Version
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
Holman Bible
it has entered our fortresses,
cutting off children from the streets,
young men from the squares.
International Standard Version
For death comes up through our windows; it has come into our palaces to eliminate children from the streets and young men from the town squares.
A Conservative Version
For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces, to cut off the sons from outside, the young men from the streets.
American Standard Version
For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
Amplified
For death has come up through our windows;
It has entered our palaces,
Cutting off the children from the streets
And the young men from the town squares.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
For death is come up through our windows, is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from the street, the young men from the broadways.
Julia Smith Translation
For death came up into our windows, it came into our palaces to cut off the child from without, the young men from the streets.
King James 2000
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For death has come into our windows, it has entered into our fortresses, to cut off [the] children from [the] streets, [the] young men from [the] public squares.
Modern King James verseion
For death has come up into our windows, and has entered into our houses, to cut off the children from outside and the young men from the streets.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Namely, thus: Death is climbing up into our windows, he is come into our houses, to destroy the child before the door, and the young man in the street.
NET Bible
Death has climbed in through our windows. It has entered into our fortified houses. It has taken away our children who play in the streets. It has taken away our young men who gather in the city squares.'
New Heart English Bible
'For death has come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.'
Webster
For death hath come up into our windows, and hath entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
World English Bible
For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets.
Youngs Literal Translation
For death hath come up into our windows, It hath come into our palaces, To cut off the suckling from without, Young men from the broad places.
Interlinear
`alah
Karath
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 9:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Judah's Failures
20 For hear O ye women the word of Yahweh, And let your ear take in the word of his mouth, - And teach your daughters a wail, Yea leach woman - her neighbour, a dirge: - 21 That death Hath come up through our windows, Hath entered our palaces, - Cutting off The boy from the street, The young men from the broadways. 22 Speak thou, Thus, declareth Yahweh, So shall fall the dead bodies of men, Like dung heaps on the face of the field, - And like swaths after the harvestman, With none to gather.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:17
So 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 upon young man or virgin, elder or ancient,-all, delivered he into his hand.
Jeremiah 6:11
So then with the indignation of Yahweh, am I full I am too weary to hold it in, am constrained to pour it out, upon the boy in the street, and upon the circle of young men, together, - For, even husband with wife, will be captured, The eider with him who is full of days;
Jeremiah 15:7
Therefore have I winnowed them with a winnowing shovel in the gates of the land, - I have bereaved - I have destroyed my people, From their own ways, have they not returned.
Ezekiel 9:5-6
But unto these, said he in mine ears, Pass along through the city after him and smite, - let not your eyes shield, neither have ye pity:
Ezekiel 21:14-15
Thou, therefore, son of man, Prophesy, and smite thy hands together, And let the sword smite twice thrice the sword of the slain! the same is the great sword of the slain, that which hemmeth them in.
Amos 6:10-11
And a man's near of kin, even he who is about to burn the bones, shall carry him out of the house, when he shall say to him that is in the hinder parts of the house - Are there yet any with thee? and he shall say - No one. Then shall he say - Hush! for we must not invoke the name of Yahweh.