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Lamentations 2:21

21 “Young vand old lie

On the ground in the streets;

My virgins and my young men

Have fallen by the wsword;

You have slain them in the day of Your anger,

You have slaughtered and not pitied.

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Lamentations 2:21 — The New International Version (NIV)

21 “Young and old lie together

in the dust of the streets;

my young men and young women

have fallen by the sword.

You have slain them in the day of your anger;

you have slaughtered them without pity.

Lamentations 2:21 — English Standard Version (ESV)

21 In the dust of the streets

lie the young and the old;

my young women and my young men

have fallen by the sword;

you have killed them in the day of your anger,

slaughtering without pity.

Lamentations 2:21 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets:

My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword;

Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

Lamentations 2:21 — New Living Translation (NLT)

21 “See them lying in the streets—

young and old,

boys and girls,

killed by the swords of the enemy.

You have killed them in your anger,

slaughtering them without mercy.

Lamentations 2:21 — New Century Version (NCV)

21 “People young and old

lie outside on the ground.

My young women and young men

have been killed by the sword.

You killed them on the day of your anger;

you killed them without mercy.

Lamentations 2:21 — American Standard Version (ASV)

21 The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets;

My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword:

Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast slaughtered, and not pitied.

Lamentations 2:21 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

21 The child and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, thou hast not spared.

Lamentations 2:21 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

21 Young and old lie on the ground in the streets. 

My young women and men are cut down by swords. 

You killed them on the day of your anger. 

You slaughtered them without any pity. 

Lamentations 2:21 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

21 Both young and old

are lying on the ground in the streets.

My young men and women

have fallen by the sword.

You have killed them in the day of Your anger,

slaughtering without compassion.

Lamentations 2:21 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

21 The young and the old are lying

on the ground in the streets;

my young women and my young men

have fallen by the sword;

in the day of your anger you have killed them,

slaughtering without mercy.

Lamentations 2:21 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

21 They lie in the soil of the streets,

young and old;

my young women and young men,

they have fallen by the sword;

you have slain on the day of your anger,

you have slaughtered and not shown mercy.

Lamentations 2:21 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

21 “Young people and old people alike

lie dead in the dust of my streets.

My young women and young men

have been killed with swords.

You killed them when you were angry.

You put them to death without pity.

Lamentations 2:21 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

21 On the ground in the streets

Lie young and old;

My virgins and my young men

Have fallen by the sword.

You have slain them in the day of Your anger,

You have slaughtered, not sparing.


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