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Jeremiah 15 (AMP)

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¹ THEN THE Lord said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, yet My mind could not be turned with favor toward this people . Send them out of My sight and let them go! ² And if they say to you, Where shall we go? then tell them, Thus says the Lord: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for famine, to famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity. ³ And I will appoint over them four kinds , says the Lord: the sword to slay, the dogs to tear and drag away, and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and to destroy. ⁴ And I will cause them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth and to be made a horror to all nations because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for which he did in Jerusalem. ⁵ For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Or who will bemoan you? Or who will turn aside to ask about your welfare? ⁶ You have rejected and forsaken Me, says the Lord. You keep going in reverse. Therefore I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you; I am weary of relenting . ⁷ I will winnow them with a fan and a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I will bereave them , I will destroy My people; from their ways they did not return. ⁸ I will increase the number of their widows more than the sand of the seas. I will bring upon them, against the mother of young men and the young men , a destroyer at noonday. I will cause anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly. ⁹ She who has borne seven languishes; she has expired. Her sun has gone down while it was yet day; she has been put to shame, confounded, and disgraced. And the rest of them I will deliver to the sword before their enemies, says the Lord. ¹⁰ Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me to be a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither loaned, nor have men loaned to me, yet everyone curses me. ¹¹ The Lord said, Truly your release, affliction, and strengthening will be for good ; surely I will intercede for you with the enemy and I will cause the enemy to ask for your aid in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. ¹² Can iron break the iron from the north and the bronze? ¹³ Your substance and your treasures will I give as spoil, without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your territory. ¹⁴ And I will make to pass with your enemies into a land which you do not know and I will make you to serve there, for a fire is kindled in My anger which will burn upon you . ¹⁵ O Lord, You know and understand; remember me and visit me and avenge me on my persecutors. Take me not away in Your long-suffering ; know that for Your sake I suffer and bear reproach. ¹⁶ Your words were found, and I ate them; and Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts. ¹⁷ I sat not in the assembly of those who make merry, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone because Your hand was upon me, for You had filled me with indignation. ¹⁸ Why is my pain perpetual and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you indeed be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail and are uncertain? ¹⁹ Therefore thus says the Lord : If you return , then I will give you again a settled place of quiet and safety, and you will be My minister; and if you separate the precious from the vile , you shall be My mouthpiece. Let them return to you--not you to . ²⁰ And I will make you to this people a fortified, bronze wall; they will fight against you, but they will not prevail over you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, says the Lord. ²¹ And I will deliver you out of the hands of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the palms of the terrible and ruthless tyrants.