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Jeremiah 18:21

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21So give their children over to famine;b

hand them over to the power of the sword.c

Let their wives be made childless and widows;d

let their men be put to death,

their young mene slain by the sword in battle.

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Cross references

  1. bJer 11:22; 14:16
  2. cSee Ps 63:10
  3. dSee 1 Sa 15:33; Ps 109:9; See Isa 47:9; La 5:3
  4. eSee Isa 9:17

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Therefore deliver up their children to famine;

give them over to the power of the sword;

let their wives become childless and widowed.

May their men meet death by pestilence,

their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Therefore, hand their children over to famine,

and give them over to the power of the sword.

Let their wives become childless and widowed,

their husbands slain by deadly disease,

their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

NLTNew Living Translation

So let their children starve!

Let them die by the sword!

Let their wives become childless widows.

Let their old men die in a plague,

and let their young men be killed in battle!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Therefore give their children to the famine,

and hand them over to the power of the sword,

and let their wives be bereaved and widows,

and let their men be killed by death,

their young men struck dead

by the sword in the battle.

KJV 1900King James Version

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.