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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then the LORD said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go! |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And 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.’ |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5“Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, or who will grieve for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6You have rejected me, declares the LORD; you keep going backward, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you— I am weary of relenting. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7I 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. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8I 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. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9She who bore seven has grown feeble; she has fainted 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, declares the LORD.” |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The LORD said, “Have I not set you free for their good? Have I not pleaded for you before the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13“Your wealth and your treasures I will give as spoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.” |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15O LORD, you know; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In your forbearance take me not away; know that for your sake I bear reproach. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O LORD, God of hosts. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I did not sit in the company of revelers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone, because your hand was upon me, for you had filled me with indignation. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail? |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Therefore thus says the LORD: “If you return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, declares the LORD. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.” |
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