OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 21

Jeremiah 9:21

For death has come up into our windows.

It has entered into our palaces

to cut off the children from outside,

and the young men from the streets.

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Jeremiah 9:21 in context

Jeremiah 9:18–24

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.

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion,

‘How we are ruined!

We are greatly confounded

because we have forsaken the land,

because they have cast down our dwellings.’”

Yet hear the LORD’s word, you women.

Let your ear receive the word of his mouth.

Teach your daughters wailing.

Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.

Selected verse

For death has come up into our windows.

It has entered into our palaces

to cut off the children from outside,

and the young men from the streets.

Speak, “The LORD says,

“‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field,

and as the handful after the harvester.

No one will gather them.’”

The LORD says,

“Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom.

Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might.

Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

But let him who glories glory in this,

that he has understanding, and knows me,

that I am the LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness on the earth,

for I delight in these things,” says the LORD.

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