The Book of Jeremiah
15: 1Then said Jehovah unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet
my mind would not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them
go forth. 15:2And it shall come to pass, when they say unto thee, Whither shall we
go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith Jehovah: 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 captivity, to captivity. 15:3And I will appoint over
them four kinds, saith Jehovah: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the
birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy. 15:4And I
will cause them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth,
because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in
Jerusalem. 15:5For who will have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who will bemoan
thee? or who will turn aside to ask of thy welfare? 15:6Thou hast rejected me, saith
Jehovah, thou art gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against
thee, and destroyed thee; I am weary with repenting. 15:7And I have winnowed
them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them of children, I have
destroyed my people; they returned not from their ways. 15:8Their widows are
increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought upon them against the
mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and
terrors to fall upon her suddenly. 15:9She that hath borne seven languisheth; she
hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she hath been
put to shame and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword
before their enemies, saith Jehovah. 15:10Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast
borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not
lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them doth curse me. 15:11Jehovah
said, Verily I will strengthen thee for good; verily I will cause the enemy to make
supplication unto thee in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. 15:12Can one
break iron, even iron from the north, and brass? 15:13Thy substance and thy
treasures will I give for a spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all
thy borders. 15:14And I will make them 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.
15:15O Jehovah, thou knowest; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my
persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have
suffered reproach. 15:16Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy words
were unto me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by thy name, O
Jehovah, God of hosts. 15:17I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor
rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.
15:18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be
healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?
15:19Therefore thus saith Jehovah, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, that
thou mayest stand before me; and if thou take forth the precious from the vile,
thou shalt be as my mouth: they shall return unto thee, but thou shalt not return
unto them. 15:20And I will make thee unto this people a fortified brazen 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 Jehovah. 15:21And I will deliver thee out
of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.