Jeremiah 9:21 Cross References - Rotherham

²¹ That death, Hath come up through our windows, Hath entered our palaces,––Cutting off, The boy from the street, The young men from the broadways.

¹⁷ So he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword, in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, elder or ancient,–all, delivered he into his hand.

¹¹ So then, with the indignation of Yahweh, am I full, I am too weary to hold it in, [I am constrained] to pour it out, upon the boy in the street, and, upon the circle of young men, together,––For, even husband with wife, will be captured, The elder with him who is full of days;

⁷ Therefore have I winnowed them with a winnowing shovel, in the gates of the land,––I have bereaved––I have destroyed my people, From their own ways, have they not returned.

⁵ But, unto these, said he in mine ears, Pass along through the city after him, and smite,––let not your eye, shield, neither have ye pity: ⁶ elder, young man and virgin, and little ones and women, shall ye slay utterly, but, unto any man who hath upon him the mark, do not ye come near, and, at my sanctuary, shall ye begin. So they began with the elder men, who were before the house.

¹⁴ Thou, therefore, son of man, Prophesy, and smite thy hands together, And let the sword smite twice, thrice, the sword of the slain! The same, is the great sword of the slain, that which hemmeth them in. ¹⁵ That the heart, may melt, And the overthrow be multiplied, at all their gates, I have recompensed a slaying by the sword: Surely it hath been made ready to flash like lightning, keen for slaughter.

¹⁰ And a man’s near of kin, even he who is about to burn the bones, shall carry him out of the house, when he shall say to him that is in the hinder parts of the house––Are there yet any with thee? and he shall say––No one. Then shall he say––Hush! for we must not invoke the name of Yahweh. ¹¹ For lo! Yahweh, is giving command, and will smite the great house into ruins,––and the little house with clefts.