“1 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before
me, [yet] my mind [could] not [be] toward this people: cast [them] out
of my sight, and let them go forth. 2 And it shall come to pass, if they
say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them,
Thus saith the LORD; Such as [are] for death, to death; and such as
[are] for the sword, to the sword; and such as [are] for the famine, to
the famine; and such as [are] for the captivity, to the captivity. 3 And
I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay,
and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the
earth, to devour and destroy. 4 And I will cause them to be removed into
all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king
of Judah, for [that] which he did in Jerusalem. 5 For who shall have
pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go
aside to ask how thou doest? 6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD,
thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against
thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. 7 And I will fan them
with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave [them] of children,
I will destroy my people, [since] they return not from their ways. 8
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have
brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at
noonday: I have caused [him] to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon
the city. 9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the
ghost; her sun is gone down while [it was] yet day: she hath been
ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the
sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.”
“10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and
a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury,
nor men have lent to me on usury; [yet] every one of them doth curse me.
11 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I
will cause the enemy to entreat thee [well] in the time of evil and in
the time of affliction. 12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the
steel? 13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil
without price, and [that] for all thy sins, even in all thy borders. 14
And I will make [thee] to pass with thine enemies into a land [which]
thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, [which] shall
burn upon you.”
“15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of
my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy
sake I have suffered rebuke. 16 Thy words were found, and I did eat
them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for
I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. 17 I sat not in the
assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand:
for thou hast filled me with indignation. 18 Why is my pain perpetual,
and my wound incurable, [which] refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be
altogether unto me as a liar, [and as] waters [that] fail? 19 Therefore
thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, [and]
thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the
vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return
not thou unto them. 20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced
brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not
prevail against thee: for I [am] with thee to save thee and to deliver
thee, saith the LORD. 21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the
wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.”
(Jeremiah 15:1-21 AV)