Isaiah 3:25
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25 Your men shall fall by the sword
and your warriors in battle.(A)
Amos 9:10
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10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,
who say, “Evil shall not overtake or meet us.”(A)
Lamentations 2:21
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21 The young and the old are lying
on the ground in the streets;
my young women and my young men
have fallen by the sword;
in the day of your anger you have killed them,
slaughtering without mercy.(A)
Jeremiah 21:9
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9 Those who stay in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but those who go out and surrender to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live and shall have their lives as a prize of war.(A)
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Jeremiah 19:7
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7 And in this place I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem and will make them fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the wild animals of the earth.(A)
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Jeremiah 18:21
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21 Therefore give their children over to famine;
hurl them out to the power of the sword;
let their wives become childless and widowed.
May their men meet death by pestilence,
their youths be slain by the sword in battle.(A)
Jeremiah 14:18
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18 If I go out into the field,
look—those killed by the sword!
And if I enter the city,
look—those sick with[a] famine!
For both prophet and priest ply their trade throughout the land
and have no knowledge.(A)
Footnotes
- 14.18 Heb look—the sicknesses of
Jeremiah 11:22
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22 therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: I am going to punish them; the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine,
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Isaiah 1:20
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20 but if you refuse and rebel,
you shall be devoured by the sword,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.(A)
2 Chronicles 29:9
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9 Our fathers have fallen by the sword and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.(A)
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