Jeremiah 50:30
What does Jeremiah 50:30 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 50:30 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949For this cause her young men will be falling in her streets, and all her men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Therefore fall do her young men in her broad places, And all her men of war are cut off in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets: and all her men of war shall hold their peace in that day, saith the Lord.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets; and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith Jehovah.
Context
v.29Call together the archers against Babylon, all them that bend the bow; encamp against her round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her; for she hath been proud against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel.
v.30This passage
v.31Behold, I am against thee, O thou proud one, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts; for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.
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.
- Jeremiah 51:3
Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his coat of mail: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
- Jeremiah 51:56
for the destroyer is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Jehovah is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.
- Revelation 19:18
that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit thereon, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, and small and great.
- Jeremiah 49:26
Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts.
- 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.
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