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Chapter 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.
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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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. |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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.
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| 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. |
| 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.
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| 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. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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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. |
