Verse 21
Jeremiah 18:21
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them into the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children and widows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young men be stabbed with the sword in battle.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לָ/כֵן֩ תֵּ֨ן אֶת בְּנֵי/הֶ֜ם לָ/רָעָ֗ב וְ/הַגִּרֵ/ם֮ עַל יְדֵי חֶרֶב֒ וְ/תִֽהְיֶ֨נָה נְשֵׁי/הֶ֤ם שַׁכֻּלוֹת֙ וְ/אַלְמָנ֔וֹת וְ/אַ֨נְשֵׁי/הֶ֔ם יִֽהְי֖וּ הֲרֻ֣גֵי מָ֑וֶת בַּח֣וּרֵי/הֶ֔ם מֻכֵּי חֶ֖רֶב בַּ/מִּלְחָמָֽה
English Translation
Therefore, give their sons to famine and let them be killed by the sword, and their wives shall be widows, and their men shall be slain, and their young men shall be wounded by the sword in battle.
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Chapter 18 Context
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The word that came from Jeremias to the Lord, saying:
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Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there thou shalt hear my words.
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And I went down into the potter's house, and behold he was doing a work on the wheel.
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And the vessel was broken which he was making with clay with his hands: and turning he made another...
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Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
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Cannot I do with you as this potter, saith the Lord? behold as clay is in the hand of the potter, so...
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I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to...
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If that nation against which I have spoken, shall repent of their evil, I also will repent of the ev...
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And I will suddenly speak of a nation and of a kingdom, to build up and plant it.
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If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice: I will repent of the good that I have sp...
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Now therefore tell the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: B...
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And they said: We have no hopes: for we will go after our own thoughts, and we will do every one acc...
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That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a perpetual hissing: every one that shall pa...
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And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias: for the law shall not perish from t...
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Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries.
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Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have st...
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Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them into the hands of the sword: let their...
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Let a cry be heard out of their houses: for thou shalt bring the robber upon them suddenly: because...
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But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto death: forgive not their iniquity, and l...
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