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Jeremiah 18:21 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle. "

Jeremiah 18:21

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19 Give heed to me, LORD, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.

20 Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle.

22 Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

23 Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger.

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Jeremiah 11:22

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"therefore the LORD of Armies says, ‘Behold, I will punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by famine."

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"They will be consumed with famine—they, their wives, and their children. Before the sword comes against them they will be laid low in the streets where they dwell."

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Judith 9:4

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"and gave their wives for a prey, and their daughters to be captives, and all their spoils to be divided among your dear children; which were moved with zeal for you, and abhorred the pollution of their blood, and called upon you for aid. O God, O my God, hear me also who am a widow."

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Jeremiah 19:9

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"I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them.”’"

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Isaiah 14:21

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"Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities."

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"They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food."

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From This Chapter

Jeremiah 18:1

"The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,"

Jeremiah 18:2

"“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.”"

Jeremiah 18:3

"Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels."

Jeremiah 18:4

"When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it."

Jeremiah 18:5

"Then the LORD’s word came to me, saying,"

Jeremiah 18:6

"“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says the LORD. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel."

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