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.
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