Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation There are more widows in your land than grains of sand by the sea. I killed your young men in their prime and made their mothers suffer. I suddenly struck them with anguish and terror. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Their widows are multiplied unto me above the sand of the sea: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young man a spoiler at noonday: I have cast a terror on a sudden upon the cities. widows. Isaiah 3:25,26 Thy fairest men also shall fall by the sword, and thy valiant ones in battle. . . . Isaiah 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our reproach. the mother, etc. Jeremiah 4:16 Say ye to the nations: Behold it is heard in Jerusalem, that guards are coming from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Juda. Jeremiah 5:6 Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain them, a wolf in the evening hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth for their cities: every one that shall go out thence shall be taken, because their transgressions are multiplied, their rebellions are strengthened. Jeremiah 6:4,5 Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let us go up at midday: woe unto us, for the day is declined, for the shadows of the evening are grown longer. . . . Luke 21:35 For as a snare shall it come upon all that sit upon the face of the whole earth. Context Judgment to Continue…7And I will scatter them with a fan in the gates of the land: I have killed and destroyed my people, and yet they are not returned from their ways. 8Their widows are multiplied unto me above the sand of the sea: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young man a spoiler at noonday: I have cast a terror on a sudden upon the cities.9She that hath borne seven is become weak, her soul hath fainted away: her sun is gone down, while it was yet day: she is confounded, and ashamed: and the residue of them I will give up to the sword in the sight of their enemies, saith the Lord.… Cross References Isaiah 3:25 Thy fairest men also shall fall by the sword, and thy valiant ones in battle. Isaiah 3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the ground. Isaiah 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our reproach. Jeremiah 6:4 Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let us go up at midday: woe unto us, for the day is declined, for the shadows of the evening are grown longer. Jeremiah 16:3 For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and daughters, that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bore them: and concerning their fathers, of whom they were born in this land: Jeremiah 18:21 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. Jeremiah 22:7 And I will prepare against thee the destroyer and his weapons: and they shall cut down thy chosen cedars, and shall cast them headlong into the fire. Lamentations 5:3 We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows. Ezekiel 22:25 There is a conspiracy of prophets in the midst thereof: like a lion that roareth and catcheth the prey, they have devoured souls, they have taken riches and hire, they have made many widows in the midst thereof. Hosea 4:5 And thou shalt fall today, and the prophet also shall fall with thee: in the night I have made thy mother to be silent. Jump to Previous Anguish Cause Caused Chosen City Destroyer Dismay Fall Increased Mother Multiplied Noonday Noon-Day Numerous Sand Seas Spoiler Suddenly Terrors Widows YoungJump to Next Anguish Cause Caused Chosen City Destroyer Dismay Fall Increased Mother Multiplied Noonday Noon-Day Numerous Sand Seas Spoiler Suddenly Terrors Widows YoungLinks Jeremiah 15:8 NIVJeremiah 15:8 NLT Jeremiah 15:8 ESV Jeremiah 15:8 NASB Jeremiah 15:8 Bible Apps Jeremiah 15:8 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 15:8 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 15:8 French Bible Jeremiah 15:8 German Bible Alphabetical: a against and anguish At be before bring destroyer dismay down her I make man Me men midday more mother mothers noonday numerous of on sand sea seas suddenly terror than the their them widows will young OT Prophets: Jeremiah 15:8 Their widows are increased to me above (Jer.) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |