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And when they ask you , `
Where shall we go ?'
you shall say to them , `
Thus says the LORD : "
Those who are for pestilence ,
to pestilence ,
and those who are for the sword ,
to the sword ;
those who are for famine ,
to famine ,
and those who are for captivity ,
to captivity ."'
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I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers ,
says the LORD :
the sword to slay ,
the dogs to tear ,
and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy .
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And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manas '
seh the son of Hezeki '
ah ,
king of Judah ,
did in Jerusalem .
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Who will have pity on you ,
O Jerusalem ,
or who will bemoan you ?
Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare ?
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You have rejected me ,
says the LORD ,
you keep going backward ;
so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you ;--
I am weary of relenting .
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I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land ;
I have bereaved them ,
I have destroyed my people ;
they did not turn from their ways .
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I have made their widows more in number than the sand of the seas ;
I have brought against the mothers of young men a destroyer at noonday ;
I have made anguish and terror fall upon them suddenly .
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She who bore seven has languished ;
she has swooned away ;
her sun went down while it was yet day ;
she has been shamed and disgraced .
And the rest of them I will give to the sword before their enemies ,
says the LORD ."