Jeremiah:15

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* 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 . * And it shall come to pass , if they say unto you , Where shall we go forth ? then you shall tell them , Thus says 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 . * And I will appoint over them four kinds , says 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 . * 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 . * For who shall have pity upon you , O Jerusalem ? or who shall lament for you ? or who shall go aside to ask how you do ? * You have forsaken me , says the LORD , you are gone backward : therefore will I stretch out my hand against you , and destroy you ; I am weary with repenting . * 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 . * 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 . * She that has borne seven languishes : she has given up the spirit ; her sun is gone down while it was yet day : she has been ashamed and confounded : and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies , says the LORD . * Woe is me , my mother , that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth ! I have neither lent on interest , nor men have lent to me on interest ; yet every one of them does curse me . * The LORD said , Verily it shall be well with your remnant ; verily I will cause the enemy to plead you well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction . * Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel ? * Your substance and your treasures will I give to the spoil without price , and that for all your sins , even in all your borders . * And I will make you to pass with yours enemies into a land which you know not : for a fire is kindled in mine anger , which shall burn upon you . * O LORD , you know : remember me , and visit me , and revenge me of my persecutors ; take me not away in your longsuffering : know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke . * Your words were found , and I did eat them ; and your word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart : for I am called by your name , O LORD God of hosts . * I sat not in the assembly of the mockers , nor rejoiced ; I sat alone because of your hand : for you have filled me with indignation . * Why is my pain perpetual , and my wound incurable , which refuses to be healed ? will you be altogether unto me as a liar , and as waters that fail ? * Therefore thus says the LORD , If you return , then will I bring you again , and you shall stand before me : and if you take forth the precious from the vile , you shall be as my mouth : let them return unto you ; but return not you unto them . * And I will make you unto this people a fenced 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 the LORD . * And I 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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