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Jeremiah - Chapter 15 |
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   | Jer 15:1 | Then 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! |
| Jer 15:2 | And 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."' |
| Jer 15:3 | "I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, says the LORD: the sword to slay, the dogs to tear, and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. |
| Jer 15:4 | And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manas'seh the son of Hezeki'ah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem. |
| Jer 15:5 | "Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, or who will bemoan you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare? |
| Jer 15:6 | You have rejected me, says the LORD, you keep going backward; so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you;--I am weary of relenting. |
| Jer 15:7 | I 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. |
| Jer 15:8 | I 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. |
| Jer 15:9 | She who bore seven has languished; she has swooned 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, says the LORD." |
| Jer 15:10 | Woe 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. |
| Jer 15:11 | So let it be, O LORD, if I have not entreated thee for their good, if I have not pleaded with thee on behalf of the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress! |
| Jer 15:12 | Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze? |
| Jer 15:13 | "Your wealth and your treasures I will give as spoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory. |
| Jer 15:14 | I will make you serve your enemies in a land which you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled which shall burn for ever." |
| Jer 15:15 | O LORD, thou knowest; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In thy forbearance take me not away; know that for thy sake I bear reproach. |
| Jer 15:16 | Thy words were found, and I ate them, and thy words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart; for I am called by thy name, O LORD, God of hosts. |
| Jer 15:17 | I did not sit in the company of merrymakers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone, because thy hand was upon me, for thou hadst filled me with indignation. |
| Jer 15:18 | Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Wilt thou be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail? |
| Jer 15:19 | Therefore 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. |
| Jer 15:20 | And 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, says the LORD. |
| Jer 15:21 | I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless." |
