Jeremiah:15

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* And the Lord said unto me , If Moses and Samuel were to stand before me , my favor would not be toward this people : send them away out of my sight , that they may go forth . * And it shall come to pass , if they should say unto thee , Whither shall we go forth , that thou shalt say unto them , Thus hath said the Lord , Such as are destined to death , to death ; and such as are destined to the sword , to the sword ; and such as are destined to famine , to famine ; and such as are destined to captivity , to captivity . * And I will appoint over them four species , saith the Lord : The sword to slay , and the dogs to drag away , and the fowls of the heaven , and the beasts of the earth , to devour and to destroy . * And I will cause them to become a horror unto all the kingdoms of the earth , on account of Menasseh the son of Hezekiah the king of Judah , because of what he did in Jerusalem . * For who will have pity upon thee , O Jerusalem ? or who will condole with thee ? or who will go aside to ask after thy welfare ? * Thou hast indeed forsaken me , saith the Lord , thou art gone backward ; therefore do I stretch out my hand against thee , and destroy thee : I am weary with repenting . * And I winnow them with a fan in the gates of the land : I make childless , I annihilate my people , from their ways they have not turned away . * Their widows are more numerous before me than the sand of the seas : I bring unto them , over the mothers of the young men , a waster at noonday ; I cause to fall upon her suddenly the enemy with terrors . * She that had born seven children fadeth away ; she breatheth out her soul , her sun is set while it is yet day ; she is made ashamed and put to the blush :––and their residue will I give up to the sword before their enemies , saith the Lord . * Woe is me , my mother , that thou hast born me , a man of contention and a man of strife to the whole land ! I have not lent , nor have men lent to me : every one of them curseth me . * The Lord said , Truly I will release thee for good ; truly I will cause the enemy to meet thee in the time of distress and in the time of affliction . * Can iron break in pieces the northern iron and copper ? * Thy wealth and thy treasures will I give up as spoil without price , and this for all thy sins , even in all thy borders . * And I will cause them to pass over with thy enemies into a land which thou knowest not ; for a fire is kindled in my anger , over you shall it burn . * Thou well knowest it , O Lord ! remember me and think of me , and avenge me on my persecutors ; not according to thy long –suffering act thou for me : know , that for thy sake I have borne shame . * When thy words were made manifest to me , then I greedily received them ; and thy word became unto me the gladness and joy of my heart ; for thy name is called upon me , O Lord of hosts . * I sat not in the assembly of the mirthful , and was rejoiced ; because of thy inspiration I sat solitary ; for thou hadst filled me with indignation . * Why is my pain perpetual , and my wound incurable ? it refuseth to be healed ; it is truly become unto me as a deceptive spring , as waters that are not reliable . * Therefore thus hath said the Lord , If thou return , and I bring thee back again , then shalt thou stand before me ; and if thou bring forth the precious from the vile , thou shalt be as my mouth : these shall return unto thee ; but thou shalt not return unto them . * And I will make thee unto this people as a fortified brazen wall ; and they will 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 . * And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked , and I will redeem thee out of the grasp of the tyrants .

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