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.
02 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.
03 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.
04 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.
05 For who shall have pity upon thee, O
Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall
go aside to ask how thou doest?
06 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.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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.
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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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