Jeremiah 18:21
"Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle."
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- Psalms 109:9
"Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 9:21
"For 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."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 16:3
"For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;"
Read in chapter → - Amos 4:10
"I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 15:8
"Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city."
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 5:3
"We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows."
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 32:25
"The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs."
Read in chapter → - Exodus 22:24
"And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 15:2
"And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 11:20
"But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause."
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