Jeremiah 50:30

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“Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.”

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BSBPD

“Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Therefore 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.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Jeremiah 50:30 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Isaiah 13:15Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.
  2. Jeremiah 9:21For 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.
  3. Jeremiah 18:21Therefore, 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.
  4. Jeremiah 48:15Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
  5. Jeremiah 49:26For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
  6. Jeremiah 50:36A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A sword is against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.
  7. Jeremiah 51:3Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!
  8. Jeremiah 51:56For a destroyer is coming against her— against Babylon. Her warriors will be captured, and their bows will be broken, for the LORD is a God of retribution; He will repay in full.
  9. Revelation 6:15Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
  10. Revelation 19:18so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”

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