Jeremiah 49:26

Modern

For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

Traditional

Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord of hosts.

Literal

Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all the men of war will be cut off on that day!” A declaration of YHWH of Hosts.

Latin

Ideo cadent juvenes ejus in plateis ejus, et omnes viri prælii conticescent in die illa, ait Dominus exercituum.

Hebrew

English

For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

Damascus, the capital of Aram (ancient Syria), and the Aramean cities of Hamath and Arpad, show that Aram is the next target of the Lord's judgment.

Theme notes and profiles

Jeremiah 50:30
Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.
Amos 4:10
“I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 11:22
So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.
Jeremiah 9:21
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.
Jeremiah 51:3–4
Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!
Ezekiel 27:27
Your wealth, wares, and merchandise, your sailors, captains, and shipwrights, your merchants and all the warriors within you, with all the other people on board, will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your downfall.
Lamentations 2:21
Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.

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