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.

JER-15:2  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.

JER-15:3  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.

JER-15:4  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.

JER-15:5  For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who

shall bemoan

thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?

JER-15:6  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.

JER-15:7  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.

JER-15:8  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.

JER-15:9  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.

JER-15:10  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.

JER-15:11  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.

JER-15:12  Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

JER-15:13  Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the

spoil without

price, and [that] for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

JER-15:14  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.

JER-15:15  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.

JER-15:16  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.

JER-15:17  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.

JER-15:18  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?

JER-15:19  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.

JER-15:20  And I will make thee unto this people a fenced 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 the LORD.

JER-15:21  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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