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Jeremiah 9:21

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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.

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Jeremiah 9:21 in other translations

For death has come up into our windows.
It has entered into our palaces
to cut off the children from outside,
and the young men from the streets.

Jeremiah 9:21 · World English Bible

Jeremiah 9:21 in context

  1. 19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.
  2. 20Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
  3. 21For 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.
  4. 22Speak, Thus saith Jehovah, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman; and none shall gather them.
  5. 23Thus saith Jehovah, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches;