punish.

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, their husbands be slain by disease, and their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

2 Chronicles 36:17
So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their choice young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

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.

1 Thessalonians 2:15, 16
who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men, . . .