King James Version
Jeremiah 50:30 in the King James Version says “Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 50 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.”
Jeremiah 50:30 · KJV
The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee. most: Heb. pride
And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him. the: Heb. pride
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner
“fall”
H5307to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
“Therefore shall her young men”
H970properly, selected, i.e., a youth (often collective)
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
“the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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