Jeremiah 49:26
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For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
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Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.