Jeremiah 18:21 New English Translation
21 So let their children die of starvation.
Let them be cut down by the sword.[a]
Let their wives lose their husbands and children.
Let the older men die of disease[b]
and the younger men die by the sword in battle.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 18:21 tn Heb “be poured out to the hand [= power] of the sword.” For this same expression see Ezek 35:5 and Ps 63:10 (63:11 HT). Comparison with those two passages shows that it involved death by violent means, perhaps death in battle.
- Jeremiah 18:21 tn Heb “be slain by death.” The commentaries are generally agreed that this refers to death by disease or plague as in 15:2. Hence, the reference is to the deadly trio of sword, starvation, and disease, which were often connected with war. See the notes on 15:2.
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