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.


In Context

18 and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

20 Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.

21 For 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.

22 Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather them.

23 Thus says Yahweh, Don't let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don't let 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 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 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.