Jeremiah 50:30
Good News Translation
So its young men will be killed in the city streets, and all its soldiers will be destroyed on that day. I, the LORD, have spoken.

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

Contemporary English Version
People of Babylon, I, the LORD, promise that even your best soldiers will lie dead in the streets.

New American Bible
Therefore their young men shall fall in the squares, all their warriors shall be stilled on that day— oracle of the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

her young

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 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 48:15 Moab is laid waste, and they have cast down her cities: and her choice young men are gone down to the slaughter: saith the king, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 49:26 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 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. . . .

Isaiah 13:15-18 Every one that shall be found, shall be slain: and every one that shall come to their aid, shall fall by the sword. . . .

all her

Jeremiah 50:36 A sword upon her diviners, and they shall be foolish: a sword upon her valiant ones, and they shall be dismayed.

Jeremiah 51:56,57 Because the spoiler is come upon her, that is, upon Babylon, and her valiant men are taken, and their bow is weakened, because the Lord, who is a strong revenger, will surely repay. . . .

Revelation 6:15 And the kings of the earth and the princes and tribunes and the rich and the strong and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of mountains:

Revelation 19:18 That you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of tribunes and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of them that sit on them: and the flesh of all freemen and bondmen and of little and of great.

Context
The Destruction of Babylon
29Declare to many against Babylon, to all that bend the bow: stand together against her round about, and let none escape; pay her according to her work: according to all that she hath done, do ye to her: for she hath lifted up herself against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel. 30Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets: and all her men of war shall hold their peace in that day, saith the Lord.31Behold I come against thee, O proud one, saith the Lord the God of hosts: for thy day is come, the time of thy visitation.…
Cross References
Isaiah 13:17
Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not seek silver, nor desire gold:

Isaiah 13:18
But with their arrows they shall kill the children, and shall have no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and their eye shall not spare their sons.

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 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 49:26
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 51:4
And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the wounded in the regions thereof.

Jeremiah 51:57
And I will make her princes drunk, and her wise men, and her captains, and her rulers, and her valiant men: and they shall sleep an everlasting sleep, and shall awake no more, saith the king whose name is Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 50:29
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