Bible, King James Version
Jeremiah
Jer.15
[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.
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