King James Version
Jeremiah 49:26 in the King James Version says “Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD o...” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 49 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.”
Jeremiah 49:26 · KJV
Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.
Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.
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properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner
“shall fall”
H5307to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“shall be cut off”
H1826to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish
“in that day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“of hosts”
H6635a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (speci
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