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.


In Context

18 Let them come quickly and wail over us till our eyes overflow with tears and water streams from our eyelids.

19 The sound of wailing is heard from Zion: 'How ruined we are! How great is our shame! We must leave our land because our houses are in ruins.' "

20 Now, O women, hear the word of the Lord ; open your ears to the words of his mouth. Teach your daughters how to wail; teach one another a lament.

21 Death 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.

22 Say, "This is what the Lord declares: " 'The dead bodies of men will lie like refuse on the open field, like cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather them.' "

23 This is what the Lord says: "Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:21For 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.

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.