Jeremiah 49:26
Good News Translation
On that day her young men will be killed in the city streets, and all her soldiers destroyed.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed in that day, says the LORD of hosts.

Contemporary English Version
Soon, even your best soldiers will lie dead in your streets. I, the LORD All-Powerful, have spoken.

New American Bible
But now its young men shall fall in its squares, all the warriors destroyed on that day— oracle of the LORD of hosts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets: and all the men of war shall be silent in that day, saith the Lord of hosts.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets: and all the men of war shall be silent in that day, saith the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 9:21 For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets.

Jeremiah 11:22 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will visit upon them: their young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine.

Jeremiah 50:30 Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets: and all her men of war shall hold their peace in that day, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:3,4 Let not him that bendeth, bend his bow, and let not him go up that is armed with a coat of mail: spare not her young men, destroy all her army. . . .

Lamentations 2:21 Sin. The child and the old man lie without on the ground: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain them in the day of thy wrath: thou hast killed, and shewn them no pity.

Ezekiel 27:27 Thy riches, and thy treasures, and thy manifold furniture, thy mariners, and thy pilots, who kept thy goods, and were chief over thy people: thy men of war also, that were in thee, with all thy multitude that is in the midst of thee: shall fall in the heart of the sea in the day of thy ruin.

Amos 4:10 I sent death upon you in the way of Egypt, I slew your young men with the sword, even to the captivity of your horses: and I made the stench of your camp to come up into your nostrils: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.

Context
The Judgment on Damascus
25How have they forsaken the city of renown, the city of joy! 26Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets: and all the men of war shall be silent in that day, saith the Lord of hosts.27And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the strong holds of Benadad.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 11:22
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will visit upon them: their young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine.

Jeremiah 50:30
Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets: and all her men of war shall hold their peace in that day, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:4
And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the wounded in the regions thereof.

Amos 4:10
I sent death upon you in the way of Egypt, I slew your young men with the sword, even to the captivity of your horses: and I made the stench of your camp to come up into your nostrils: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 49:25
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