Jeremiah Chapter 9 verse 21 Holy Bible
For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, `and' the young men from the streets.
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For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.
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For death is come up through our windows, is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from the street, the young men from the broadways.
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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.
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For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets.
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For death hath come up into our windows, It hath come into our palaces, To cut off the suckling from without, Young men from the broad places.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 21. - Death is come up, etc. "Death," equivalent to "pestilence" (as Jeremiah 15:2), the most dreaded foe of a besieged population. (For the figure, comp. Joel 2:9.) The children from without. The ideal of Zechariah is that "the streets of the city should be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof" (Jeremiah 8:5). But the pitiless reaper, Death, shall cut off even "the playful child from the street" (so we might render more literally). Streets, in the parallel clause, means the "broad places" where men congregate to toll the news.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(21) Death is come up into our windows.--"Death" stands here, as in Jeremiah 15:2, specifically for the pestilence, which is to add its horrors to those of the famine and the sword, and which creeps in with its fatal taint at the windows, even though the invader is for a time kept at bay, and cuts off the children who else would play "without," sc., in the court-yard of the house, and the "young men" who else would gather, as were their wont, in the streets or the open places of the city. The Hebrew word rehoboth (comp. Genesis 26:22) answers to "piazza," "square," "market-place," rather than to our street.
