Jeremiah 11:22

Jeremiah chapter 11 · verse 22 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Therefore thus saith 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:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;

Context

v.21Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Thou shalt not prophesy in the name of Jehovah, that thou die not by our hand;

v.22This passage

v.23and there shall be no remnant unto them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 18:21

    Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle.

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:15

    who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and please not God, and are contrary to all men;

  • Lamentations 2:21

    The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast slaughtered, and not pitied.

  • Jeremiah 9:21

    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.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:17

    Therefore he brought upon 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, old man or hoary-headed: he gave them all into his hand.