Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
it has entered our fortresses,
cutting off children from the streets,
young men from the squares.
New American Standard Bible
It has entered our palaces
To cut off the
The young men from the town squares.
King James Version
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.
International Standard Version
For death comes up through our windows; it has come into our palaces to eliminate children from the streets and young men from the town squares.
A Conservative Version
For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces, to cut off the sons from outside, the young men from the streets.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
For death has come up through our windows;
It has entered our palaces,
Cutting off the children from the streets
And the young men from the town squares.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
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.
Julia Smith Translation
For death came up into our windows, it came into our palaces to cut off the child from without, the young men from the streets.
King James 2000
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the squares.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For death has come into our windows, it has entered into our fortresses, to cut off [the] children from [the] streets, [the] young men from [the] public squares.
Modern King James verseion
For death has come up into our windows, and has entered into our houses, to cut off the children from outside and the young men from the streets.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Namely, thus: Death is climbing up into our windows, he is come into our houses, to destroy the child before the door, and the young man in the street.
NET Bible
Death has climbed in through our windows. It has entered into our fortified houses. It has taken away our children who play in the streets. It has taken away our young men who gather in the city squares.'
New Heart English Bible
'For death has 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.'
The Emphasized Bible
That death Hath come up through our windows, Hath entered our palaces, - Cutting off The boy from the street, The young men from the broadways.
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.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
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.
Interlinear
`alah
Karath
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 9:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Judah's Failures
20
Pay attention to
Teach your daughters a lament
and one another a dirge,
it has entered our fortresses,
cutting off children from the streets,
young men from the squares.
This is what the Lord says:
like manure on the surface of the field,
like newly cut grain
with no one to gather it.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:17
So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans,
Jeremiah 6:11
I am tired of holding it back.
Pour it out on the children in the street,
on the gang of young men as well.
For both husband and wife will be captured,
the old with the very old.
Jeremiah 15:7
at the gates of the land.
I made them childless; I destroyed My people.
They would not turn from their ways.
Ezekiel 9:5-6
He spoke as I listened to the others, “Pass through the city after him and start killing; do not show pity or spare them!
Ezekiel 21:14-15
and clap your hands together.
Let the sword strike two times, even three.
It is a sword for massacre,
a sword for great massacre—
it surrounds
Amos 6:10-11
A close relative
That person will reply, “None.”
Then he will say, “Silence, because Yahweh’s name must not be invoked.”