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 9:21 in other translations
| BSB | 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. |
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| WEB | 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. |
| ASV | 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. |
| YLT | 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. |
| DARBY | 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. |
| BBE | 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. |
| 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. |
What does Jeremiah 9:21 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 9:12-22
In Zion the voice of joy and praise used to be heard, while the people kept close to God; but sin has altered the sound, it is now the voice of lamentation. Unhumbled hearts lament their calamity, but not their sin, which is the cause of it. Let the doors be shut ever so fast, death steals upon us. It enters the palaces of princes and great men, though stately, strongly built, and guarded. Nor are those more safe…
Jeremiah 9:21 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 9:21
- Jeremiah 6:11
Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 15:7
And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.
- Ezekiel 9:5-6
And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
- Ezekiel 21:14-15
Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers. I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
- Amos 6:10-11
And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the Lord. For, behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
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Context
- Jeremiah 9:20
Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
- 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 9:22
Speak, Thus saith the Lord, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
Jeremiah 9:21 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque la muerte ha subido por nuestras ventanas, ha entrado en nuestros palacios; para talar los niños de las calles, los mancebos de las plazas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Dis: Ainsi dit l’ Éternel: Oui, le cadavre de l’homme tombera comme du fumier sur la face des champs, et comme la gerbe après le moissonneur, et il n’y a personne qui la recueille. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn der Tod ist durch unsere Fenster gestiegen, er ist in unsere Paläste gekommen, um das Kind auszurotten von der Gasse, die Jünglinge von den Straßen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | quia ascendit mors per fenestras nostras; ingressa est domos nostras, disperdere parvulos deforis, juvenes de plateis. |