Jeremiah 9:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Death is come up; the unavoidableness of the ruin is expressed metaphorically, Ezekiel 21:14 Jeremiah 6:5, most likely alluding to the violent and universal storming of a city, Jeremiah 5:10, wherein there is no respect had to sex, youth, or age. Several other allusions. See English Annotations. The Chaldeans are here understood by death, as bringing death wherever they come; a metonymy of the effect. To cut off the children from without; no safety within or without; the enemy shall cut off all, not only those at home, but even those that are conversing or playing in the streets, which most commonly young men and children are, Jeremiah 6:11.

Jeremiah 9:21

21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.