| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
|
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. |
