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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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks through Jeremiah to the nations and Babylon during the prophetic mobilization against the city. He pronounces judgment as archers encircle her for defying the Holy One of Israel.
The words — יִדַּ֛מּוּ (yi.Da.mu) translates literally to they will be silenced or struck mute. בַחוּרֶ֖י/הָ (va.chu.Rei./ha) means its young men, identifying the city's combat-ready population.
The thread — The identical judgment phrase appears in Jeremiah 49:26 regarding Edom. The motif of death invading streets and fortresses recurs in Jeremiah 9:21 and 18:21.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that human military strength cannot withstand divine judgment. It calls the reader to abandon reliance on worldly power and submit to God's sovereign authority.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- 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.
- 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 18:21 Therefore, 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.
- Isaiah 13:15 Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.
- Jeremiah 48:15 Moab 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.
- Jeremiah 50:36 A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A sword is against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.
- 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!
- Jeremiah 51:56 For 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.
- Revelation 6:15 Then 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.
- Revelation 19:18 so 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.”