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Jeremiah 9:21 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 9 · verse 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.Jeremiah 9:21 · King James Version
Jeremiah 9:21 in context
19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
20Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
21For 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.
22Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
23Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- childrenʻôwlêla sucklingH5768 →
- windowschallôwna windowH2474 →
- enteredbôwʼto go or comeH935 →
- palacesʼarmôwna citadelH759 →
- withoutchûwtsproperly, separate by awallH2351 →
- deathmâvethdeathH4194 →
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Two things the prophet designs, in these verses, with reference to the approaching destruction of Judah and Jerusalem: - 1. To convince people of the justice of God in it, that they had by sin brought it upon themselves and that therefore they had no reason to quarrel with God, who did them no wrong at all, but a…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-22