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.


In Context

18 Let them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters.

19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Sion: How are we wasted and greatly confounded? because we have left the land, because our dwellings are cast down.

20 Hear 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 neighbor mourning.

21 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.

22 Speak: 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.

23 Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man glory in his riches:

Jeremiah 9:21 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:21For 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:21Death has climbed in through our windows and has entered our fortresses; it has cut off the children from the streets and the young men from the public squares.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:21For 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:21For 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:21For 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:21For 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:21For 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:21For 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:21For 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.