Isaiah 3:25
New King James Version
25 Your men shall fall by the sword,
And your [a]mighty in the war.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 3:25 Lit. strength
Amos 9:10
New King James Version
10 All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword,
(A)Who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.’
Lamentations 2:21
New King James Version
21 “Young(A) and old lie
On the ground in the streets;
My virgins and my young men
Have fallen by the (B)sword;
You have slain them in the day of Your anger,
You have slaughtered and not pitied.
Jeremiah 21:9
New King James Version
9 He who (A)remains in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out and [a]defects to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall (B)live, and his life shall be as a prize to him.
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- Jeremiah 21:9 Lit. falls away to
Jeremiah 19:7
New King James Version
7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, (A)and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hands of those who seek their lives; their (B)corpses I will give as meat for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth.
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Jeremiah 18:21
New King James Version
21 Therefore (A)deliver up their children to the famine,
And pour out their blood
By the force of the sword;
Let their wives become widows
And (B)bereaved of their children.
Let their men be put to death,
Their young men be slain
By the sword in battle.
Jeremiah 14:18
New King James Version
18 If I go out to (A)the field,
Then behold, those slain with the sword!
And if I enter the city,
Then behold, those sick from famine!
Yes, both prophet and (B)priest go about in a land they do not know.’ ”
Jeremiah 11:22
New King James Version
22 therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall (A)die by famine;
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Isaiah 1:20
New King James Version
20 But if you refuse and rebel,
You shall be devoured by the sword”;
(A)For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
2 Chronicles 29:9
New King James Version
9 For indeed, because of this (A)our fathers have fallen by the sword; and our sons, our daughters, and our wives are in captivity.
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