Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives be made childless and widows; let their men be put to death, their young men slain by the sword in battle. New Living Translation So let their children starve! Let them die by the sword! Let their wives become childless widows. Let their old men die in a plague, and let their young men be killed in battle! English Standard Version Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over to the power of the sword; let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle. Berean Standard Bible Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle. King James Bible Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle. New King James Version Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, And pour out their blood By the force of the sword; Let their wives become widows And bereaved of their children. Let their men be put to death, Their young men be slain By the sword in battle. New American Standard Bible Therefore, give their children over to famine And turn them over to the power of the sword; And let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be slaughtered to death, Their young men struck and killed by the sword in battle. NASB 1995 Therefore, give their children over to famine And deliver them up to the power of the sword; And let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smitten to death, Their young men struck down by the sword in battle. NASB 1977 Therefore, give their children over to famine, And deliver them up to the power of the sword; And let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smitten to death, Their young men struck down by the sword in battle. Legacy Standard Bible Therefore, give their children over to famine And deliver them up to the power of the sword; And let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smitten to death, Their young men struck down by the sword in battle. Amplified Bible Therefore, give their children over to the famine; Give them over to the power of the sword. And let their wives become childless and widowed; Let their men meet death [by virulent disease], Their young men be struck down by the sword in battle. Christian Standard Bible Therefore, hand their children over to famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, their husbands slain by deadly disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle. Holman Christian Standard Bible Therefore, hand their children over to famine, and pour the sword’s power on them. Let their wives become childless and widowed, their husbands slain by deadly disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle. American Standard Version 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Because of this, give their children to starvation, and deliver them to the hand of the sword. Their wives shall be bereaved and become widows, and their mighty men shall be slain by death, and their young men slain by the sword in war! Brenton Septuagint Translation Therefore do thou deliver their sons to famine, and gather them to the power of the sword: let their women be childless and widows; and let their men be cut off by death, and their young men fall by the sword in war. Contemporary English Version But now I am asking you to let their children starve or be killed in war. Let women lose their husbands and sons to disease and violence. Douay-Rheims Bible Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them into the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children and widows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young men be stabbed with the sword in battle. English Revised Version 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation Now, hand their children over to famine. Pour out their [blood] by using your sword. Then their wives will become childless widows. Their husbands will be put to death. Their young men will be struck down in battle. Good News Translation But now, LORD, let their children starve to death; let them be killed in war. Let the women lose their husbands and children; let the men die of disease and the young men be killed in battle. International Standard Version Therefore, make their children undergo famine, and deliver them over to death in time of war. May their women be childless widows! May their men be slaughtered! May their young men be slain by the sword in battle! JPS Tanakh 1917 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, And hurl them to the power of the sword; And let their wives be bereaved of their children, and widows; And let their men be slain of death, And their young men smitten of the sword in battle. Literal Standard Version Therefore, give up their sons to famine, | And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, | And their wives are bereaved and widows, | And their men are slain by death, | Their young men [are] struck by sword in battle, Majority Standard Bible Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle. New American Bible So now, give their children to famine, deliver them to the power of the sword. Let their wives be childless and widows; let their husbands die of pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle. NET Bible So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle. New Revised Standard Version Therefore give their children over to famine; hurl them out to the power of the sword, let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be slain by the sword in battle. New Heart English Bible 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 struck of the sword in battle. Webster's Bible Translation Therefore deliver their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle. World English Bible Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle. Young's Literal Translation Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Plot Against Jeremiah…20Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them. 21Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle. 22Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.… Cross References 1 Samuel 15:33 But Samuel declared: "As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women." And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal. Psalm 63:10 They will fall to the power of the sword; they will become a portion for foxes. Psalm 109:9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. Isaiah 9:17 Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised. Isaiah 13:18 Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children. Jeremiah 9:21 For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares. Jeremiah 11:22 So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine. Treasury of Scripture Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle. deliver. Jeremiah 11:20-23 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause… Jeremiah 12:3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. Jeremiah 20:1-6,11,12 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things… pour out their blood. Jeremiah 15:2,3,8 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity… Jeremiah 16:3,4 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land; … Exodus 22:24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. let their young. Jeremiah 9:21 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. Jeremiah 11:22 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: 2 Chronicles 36:17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand. Jump to Previous Battle Bereaved Blood Childless Children Death Deliver Famine Force Hurl Pour Power Slain Smitten Struck Sword Widowed Widows Wives YoungJump to Next Battle Bereaved Blood Childless Children Death Deliver Famine Force Hurl Pour Power Slain Smitten Struck Sword Widowed Widows Wives YoungJeremiah 18 1. Under the type of a potter is shown God's absolute power in disposing of nations.11. Judgments threatened to Judah for her strange revolt. 18. Jeremiah prays against his conspirators. (21) Therefore deliver up their children . . .--The bitter words that follow startle and pain us, like the imprecations of Psalms 35, 69, 109. To what extent they were the utterances of a righteous indignation, a true zeal for God, which had not yet learnt the higher lesson of patience and forgiveness, or embodied an element of personal vindictiveness, we are not called on to inquire, and could not, in any case, decide. It is not ours to judge another man's servant. In all like cases we have to remember that the very truthfulness with which the prayer is recorded is at least a proof that the prophet felt, like Jonah, that he did well to be angry (Jonah 4:9), that a righteous anger is at least one step towards a righteous love, and that we, as disciples of Christ, have passed, or ought to have passed, beyond that earlier stage. Pour out their blood by the force of the sword.--Literally, with a bolder metaphor, pour them out into the hands of the sword. Verse 21. - Pour out their blood by the force, etc.; rather, spill them into the hands of, etc. (see Psalm 63:10); a phrase akin to that in Isaiah 53:12. The sword is personified. Let their men he put to death; another personification, for the Hebrew has "slain of Death" - pestilence is referred to, as Jeremiah 15:2.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Therefore,לָכֵן֩ (lā·ḵên) Adverb Strong's 3651: So -- thus hand their children בְּנֵיהֶ֜ם (bə·nê·hem) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 1121: A son over תֵּ֨ן (tên) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 5414: To give, put, set to famine, לָרָעָ֗ב (lā·rā·‘āḇ) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7458: Famine, hunger pour out וְהַגִּרֵם֮ (wə·hag·gi·rêm) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | third person masculine plural Strong's 5064: To flow, to stretch out, to pour out, down, to deliver over the power יְדֵי־ (yə·ḏê-) Noun - fdc Strong's 3027: A hand of the sword חֶרֶב֒ (ḥe·reḇ) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword upon them. עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against Let their wives נְשֵׁיהֶ֤ם (nə·šê·hem) Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female become וְתִֽהְיֶ֨נָה (wə·ṯih·ye·nāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine plural Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be childless שַׁכֻּלוֹת֙ (šak·ku·lō·wṯ) Adjective - feminine plural Strong's 7909: Childless and widowed, וְאַלְמָנ֔וֹת (wə·’al·mā·nō·wṯ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural Strong's 490: A widow, a desolate place their husbands וְאַ֨נְשֵׁיהֶ֔ם (wə·’an·šê·hem) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person be slain הֲרֻ֣גֵי (hă·ru·ḡê) Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine plural construct Strong's 2026: To smite with deadly intent by disease, מָ֑וֶת (mā·weṯ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin and their young men בַּח֣וּרֵיהֶ֔ם (ba·ḥū·rê·hem) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 970: Selected, a youth struck down מֻכֵּי־ (muk·kê-) Verb - Hofal - Participle - masculine plural construct Strong's 5221: To strike by the sword חֶ֖רֶב (ḥe·reḇ) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword in battle. בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה׃ (bam·mil·ḥā·māh) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 4421: A battle, war Links Jeremiah 18:21 NIVJeremiah 18:21 NLT Jeremiah 18:21 ESV Jeremiah 18:21 NASB Jeremiah 18:21 KJV Jeremiah 18:21 BibleApps.com Jeremiah 18:21 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 18:21 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 18:21 French Bible Jeremiah 18:21 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Jeremiah 18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to (Jer.) |
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