20 Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament. 21 For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares. 22 Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”
Jeremiah 9:20–22
Semantically similar passages
Jeremiah 6:25–27
25 Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side. 26 O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer…
Lamentations 2:20–22
20 Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord? 21 Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets.… 22 …
2 Esdras 16:1–3
1 Woe to you, Babylon, and Asia! Woe to you, Egypt and Syria! (WEB) 2 Put on sackcloth and garments of goats’ hair, wail for your children and lament; for your destruction is at hand. (WEB) 3 A sword has been sent upon you, and who is there to turn it back? (WEB)
Jeremiah 18:20–22
20 Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them. 21 Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wi…
2 Esdras 16:22–24
22 For many of those who dwell on earth will perish of famine; and others who escape the famine, the sword will destroy. (WEB) 23 The dead will be cast out like dung, and there will be no one to comfort them; for the earth will be left desolate, and its cities will be cas… (WEB)
Jeremiah 16:5–7
5 Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares the LORD. 6 “Both great and small will di…
Jeremiah 49:25–27
25 How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy? 26 For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts. 27 “I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortr…
Jeremiah 11:21–23
21 Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the people of Anathoth who are seeking your life and saying, “You must not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hand.” 22 So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young… 23 …
Search the collection All books and codes Translations and sources