Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

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.

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

for Death has climbed through our windows;
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.'

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.

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מות 
Maveth 
Usage: 156

is come up
עלה 
`alah 
Usage: 890

חלּון 
Challown 
Usage: 31

and is entered

come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

ארמון 
'armown 
Usage: 33

to cut off
כּרת 
Karath 
Usage: 287

the children
עלל עולל 
`owlel 
Usage: 21

חץ חוּץ 
Chuwts 
Usage: 164

and the young men
בּחר בּחוּר 
Bachuwr 
Usage: 46

Verse Info

Context Readings

Judah's Failures

20 Hear, O women, the word of the LORD, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a lament, and each to her neighbor a dirge. 21 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.
22 Speak, "Thus declares the LORD: 'The dead bodies of men shall fall like dung upon the open field, like sheaves after the reaper, and none shall gather them.'"

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

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.

Jeremiah 6:11

Therefore I am full of the wrath of the LORD; I am weary of holding it in. "Pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the gatherings of young men, also; both husband and wife shall be taken, the elderly and the very aged.

Jeremiah 15:7

I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people; they did not turn from their ways.

Ezekiel 9:5-6

And to the others he said in my hearing, "Pass through the city after him, and strike. Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity.

Ezekiel 21:14-15

"As for you, son of man, prophesy. Clap your hands and let the sword come down twice, yes, three times, the sword for those to be slain. It is the sword for the great slaughter, which surrounds them,

Amos 6:10-11

And when one's relative, the one who anoints him for burial, shall take him up to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, "Is there still anyone with you?" he shall say, "No"; and he shall say, "Silence! We must not mention the name of the LORD."

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