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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 you shall tell them, Thus said 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, said 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 you doest?
  
6.
 Thou have forsaken me, said the Lord, you 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 has borne seven languisheth: she has given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she has been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, said the Lord in dream.
  
10.
 Woe is me, my mother, that you have 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 does curse me.
  
11.
 The Lord said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat you 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 you to pass with your enemies into a land which you knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.
  
15.
 O Lord, you 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 you have filled me with indignation.
  
18.
 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? will you be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
  
19.
 Therefore thus said the Lord, If you return, then will I bring you again, and you shall stand before me: and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not you unto them.
  
20.
 And I will make you unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with you to save you and to deliver thee, said the Lord in dream.
  
21.
 And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.
  

 
 
 

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