Jeremiah 9:21
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For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets.

Jeremiah 6:11 Therefore am I full of the fury of the Lord, I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the child abroad, and upon the council of the young men together: for man and woman shall be taken, the ancient and he that is full of days.

Jeremiah 15:7 And I will scatter them with a fan in the gates of the land: I have killed and destroyed my people, and yet they are not returned from their ways.

2 Chronicles 36:17 For he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, and he slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, he had no compassion on young man, or maiden, old man or even him that stooped for age, but he delivered them all into his hands.

Ezekiel 9:5,6 And to the others he said in my hearing: Go ye after him through the city, and strike: let not your eyes spare, nor be ye moved with pity. . . .

Ezekiel 21:14,15 Thou therefore, O son of man, prophesy, and strike thy hands together, and let the sword be doubled, and let the sword of the slain be tripled: this is the sword of a great slaughter, that maketh them stand amazed, . . .

Amos 6:10,11 And a man's kinsman shall take him up, and shall burn him, that he may carry the bones out of the house; and he shall say to him that is in the inner rooms of the house: Is there yet any with thee? . . .

Context
A Lament over Zion
20Hear therefore, ye women, the word of the Lord: and let your ears receive the word of his mouth: and teach your daughters wailing: and every one her neighbour mourning. 21For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets.22Speak: Thus saith the Lord: Even the carcass of man shall fall as dung upon the face of the country, and as grass behind the back of the mower, and there is none to gather it.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:17
For he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, and he slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, he had no compassion on young man, or maiden, old man or even him that stooped for age, but he delivered them all into his hands.

Isaiah 40:30
You shall faint, and labour, and young men shall fall by infirmity.

Jeremiah 6:11
Therefore am I full of the fury of the Lord, I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the child abroad, and upon the council of the young men together: for man and woman shall be taken, the ancient and he that is full of days.

Jeremiah 6:21
Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring destruction upon this people, by which fathers and sons together shall fall, neighbour and kinsman shall perish.

Jeremiah 15:7
And I will scatter them with a fan in the gates of the land: I have killed and destroyed my people, and yet they are not returned from their ways.

Jeremiah 18:21
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.

Jeremiah 44:7
And now thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against your own souls, that there should die of you man and woman, child and suckling out of the midst of Juda, and no remnant should be left you:

Jeremiah 50:30
Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets: and all her men of war shall hold their peace in that day, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 9:5
And to the others he said in my hearing: Go ye after him through the city, and strike: let not your eyes spare, nor be ye moved with pity.

Ezekiel 9:6
Utterly destroy old and young, maidens, children and women: but upon whomsoever you shall see Thau, kill him not, and begin ye at my sanctuary. So they began at the ancient men who were before the house.

Joel 2:9
They shall enter into the city: they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up the houses, they shall come in at the windows, as a thief.

Amos 6:9
And if there remain ten men in one house, they also shall die.

Amos 6:10
And a man's kinsman shall take him up, and shall burn him, that he may carry the bones out of the house; and he shall say to him that is in the inner rooms of the house: Is there yet any with thee?

Lexicon
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

death
מָ֙וֶת֙ (mā·weṯ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin

has climbed in
עָ֤לָה (‘ā·lāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5927: To ascend, in, actively

through our windows;
בְּחַלּוֹנֵ֔ינוּ (bə·ḥal·lō·w·nê·nū)
Preposition-b | Noun - common plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2474: A window

it has entered
בָּ֖א (bā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go

our fortresses,
בְּאַרְמְנוֹתֵ֑ינוּ (bə·’ar·mə·nō·w·ṯê·nū)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 759: A citadel

to cut off
לְהַכְרִ֤ית (lə·haḵ·rîṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 3772: To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant

the children
עוֹלָל֙ (‘ō·w·lāl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5768: A suckling

from the streets,
מִח֔וּץ (mi·ḥūṣ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2351: Separate by a, wall, outside, outdoors

the young men
בַּחוּרִ֖ים (ba·ḥū·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 970: Selected, a youth

from the town squares.
מֵרְחֹבֽוֹת׃ (mê·rə·ḥō·ḇō·wṯ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7339: A broad open place, plaza


Additional Translations
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.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.

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.

For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants without, and the young men from the streets.

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.

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.

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.

For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets.

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.
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