Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all her men of war will be brought to silence in that day,” says Yahweh.
- KJV Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
- NKJV Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets, And all her men of war shall be cut off in that day,” says the Lord.
- NASB “Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, And all her men of war will perish on that day,” declares the Lord.
- NLT Her young men will fall in the streets and die. Her soldiers will all be killed,” says the Lord.
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Quick answer
Babylon's young men will fall in her streets and her soldiers be silenced in that day. Her military strength is utterly cut down.
Overview
Echoing the judgment earlier pronounced on Damascus (49:26), this verse declares the destruction of Babylon's fighting men. The repetition underscores God's even-handed justice among the nations. The silencing of her warriors demonstrates that no army can shield a people whom God has decreed to judge.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Jer 49:26For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
- Jer 18:21Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
- Jer 9:21For 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.
- Isa 13:15–18Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.
- Jer 51:56–57For a destroyer is coming against her—against Babylon. Her warriors will be captured, and their bows will be broken, for the LORD is a God of retribution; He will repay in full.
- Jer 50:36A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A sword is against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.
- Jer 51:3–4Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!
- Jer 48:15Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
- Rev 6:15Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
- Rev 19:18so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”
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