Cross references

Lamentations 2:21

Both young and old lie together

in the dust of the streets.

My young men and maidens

have fallen by the sword.

You have slain them in the day of Your anger;

You have slaughtered them without compassion.

Lamentations 2:21 BSB

Lamentations 2:21 has 27 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 2 Chronicles 36:17 (5 votes) and Zechariah 11:6 (5 votes). 27 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Leviticus 26 to Zechariah 11.

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Which verses does Lamentations 2:21 point to?

The 20 strongest of 27, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,

  2. For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.”

  3. I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.’”

  4. You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.

  5. Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

  6. The Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst; He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. Like grapes in a winepress, the Lord has trampled the Virgin Daughter of Judah.

  7. Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.

  8. The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.

  9. a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.

  10. With the edge of the sword they devoted to destruction everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys.

Which verses point to Lamentations 2:21?

The 10 strongest of 27.