Then said theLORDunto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me,yetmy mindcouldnotbetoward this people: castthemout of my sight, and let them go forth.
And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith theLORD; Such asarefor death, to death; and such asarefor the sword, to the sword; and such asarefor the famine, to the famine; and such asarefor the captivity, to the captivity.
And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith theLORD: 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.
And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, forthatwhich he did in Jerusalem.
For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
Thou hast forsaken me, saith theLORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereavethemof children, I will destroy my people,sincethey return not from their ways.
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 causedhimto fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down whileit wasyet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith theLORD.
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;yetevery one of them doth curse me.
TheLORDsaid, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat theewellin the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, andthatfor all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
And I will maketheeto pass with thine enemies into a landwhichthou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger,whichshall burn upon you.
OLORD, 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.
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, OLORDGod of hosts.
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.
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable,whichrefuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar,and aswatersthatfail?
Therefore thus saith theLORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again,andthou 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.
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 Iamwith thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith theLORD.
And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.