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Jeremiah 49:26
For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The LORD of Hosts pronounces judgment against a city, declaring the death of its combatants. This oracle sits between a rhetorical question about an abandoned town of praise and a threat of fire against Damascus.
The words — יִדַּ֙מּוּ֙ (yi.Da.mu) means they will be silenced, denoting the complete cessation of warrior activity. יִפְּל֥וּ (yi.pe.Lu) translates as they will fall, describing physical defeat in open places.
The thread — The identical phrase regarding fallen young men and silenced warriors appears in Jeremiah 50:30. Similar judgments on military youth by the sword are recorded in Jeremiah 11:22 and Amos 4:10.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that human military strength cannot avert divine judgment. It requires the reader to accept the certainty of the prophetic declaration without evasion.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord of hosts.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 50:30 Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 11:22 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.
- Amos 4:10 “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.
- Jeremiah 9:21 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.
- Jeremiah 51:3 Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!
- Lamentations 2:21 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.
- Ezekiel 27:27 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.