Jer 14:18, 18:21, Lam 1:20, 2:21, Eze 9:5-6, 23:46-47 | ESV | STEP | If I go out into the field , behold , those pierced by the sword ! And if I enter the city , behold , the diseases of famine ! For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land and have no knowledge .

Jeremiah 14:18

18 ^aIf I go out into the field,
behold, those pierced by the sword!
^bAnd if I enter the city,
behold, the diseases of famine!
^cFor both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land
and have no knowledge.’”

Jeremiah 18:21

21 Therefore ^ddeliver up their children to famine;
give them over to the power of the sword;
let their wives become childless ^eand widowed.
May their men meet death by pestilence,
their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.

Lamentations 1:20

20 “Look, O Lord, for I am in distress;
^fmy stomach churns;
my heart is wrung within me,
because I have been very rebellious.
^gIn the street the sword bereaves;
in the house it is like death.

Lamentations 2:21

21 In the dust of the streets
^hlie the young and the old;
ⁱmy young women and my young men
have fallen by the sword;
^jyou have killed them in the day of your anger,
slaughtering ^kwithout pity.

Ezekiel 9:5-6

5 And to ^lthe others he said in my hearing, “Pass through the city after him, and strike. ^mYour eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity. 6 ⁿKill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but ^otouch no one on whom is the mark. And ^pbegin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house.

Ezekiel 23:46-47

46 For thus says the Lord God: ^q“Bring up a vast host against them, and make them ^ran object of terror and ^sa plunder. 47 ^tAnd the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. ^uThey shall kill their sons and their daughters, and ^vburn up their houses.