The Book of Jeremiah (WEB)
15: 1Then said Yahweh to 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. 15:2It shall happen,
when they tell you, Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: 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. 15:3I will appoint over them four kinds,
says Yahweh: the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of
the earth, to devour and to destroy. 15:4I will cause them to be tossed back and forth 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 on you, Jerusalem? or who will bemoan you? or
who will turn aside to ask of your welfare? 15:6You have rejected me, says Yahweh, you are gone
backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with
repenting. 15:7I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them of
children, I have destroyed my people; they didn't return from their ways. 15:8Their widows are
increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought on them against the mother of the
young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.
15:9She who has borne seven languishes; she has given up the spirit; her sun is gone down while it
was yet day; she has been put to shame and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to
the sword before their enemies, says Yahweh. 15:10Woe is me, my mother, that you have 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 everyone of them does curse me. 15:11Yahweh said, Most assuredly I will strengthen you for
good; most assuredly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in
the time of affliction. 15:12Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass? 15:13Your
substance and your treasures will I give for a spoil without price, and that for all your sins, even in
all your borders. 15:14I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don't know;
for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn on you. 15:15Yahweh, you know; remember me,
and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; don't take me away in your longsuffering: know
that for your sake I have suffered reproach. 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them; and your
words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God
of hosts. 15:17I didn't sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because
of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation. 15:18Why is my pain perpetual, and my
wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, as
waters that fail? 15:19Therefore thus says Yahweh, If you return, then will I bring you again, that you
may stand before me; and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth:
they shall return to you, but you shall not return to them. 15:20I will make you to this people a
fortified brazen wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; for I
am with you to save you and to deliver you, says Yahweh. 15:21I will deliver you out of the hand of
the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.
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