Jeremiah 9:21
9:21 ‘Death has climbed in through our windows.
It has entered into our fortified houses.
It has taken away our children who play in the streets.
It has taken away our young men who gather in the city squares.’
Jeremiah 8:3
8:3 However, I will leave some of these wicked people alive and banish them to other places. But wherever these people who survive may go, they will wish they had died rather than lived,”
says the
Lord who rules over all.
Jeremiah 18:21
18:21 So let their children die of starvation.
Let them be cut down by the sword.
Let their wives lose their husbands and children.
Let the older men die of disease
and the younger men die by the sword in battle.
Jeremiah 26:8
26:8 Jeremiah had just barely finished saying all the
Lord had commanded him to say to all the people. All at once some
of the priests, the prophets, and the people grabbed him and shouted, “You deserve to die!
Jeremiah 26:11
26:11 Then the priests and the prophets made their charges before the officials and all the people. They said,
“This man should be condemned to die
because he prophesied against this city. You have heard him do so
with your own ears.”
Jeremiah 26:16
26:16 Then the officials and all the people rendered their verdict to the priests and the prophets. They said, “This man should not be condemned to die. For he has spoken to us under the authority of the Lord our God.”