Jeremiah 15:1-9

New King James Version

The Lord Will Not Relent

15 Then the Lord said to me, ^(A)“Even if ^(B)Moses and ^(C)Samuel stood before Me, My ^[a]mind would not be favorable toward this people. Cast them out of My sight, and let them go forth. ²And it shall be, if they say to you, ‘Where should we go?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord:

^(D)“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 ^(E)captivity, to the captivity.” ’

³“And I will ^(F)appoint over them four forms of destruction,” says the Lord: “the sword to slay, the dogs to drag, ^(G)the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. ⁴I will hand them over to ^(H)trouble, to all kingdoms of the earth, because of ^(I)Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what 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 how you are doing?
⁶^(J)You have forsaken Me,” says the Lord,
“You have ^(K)gone backward.
Therefore I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you;
^(L)I am ^[b]weary of relenting!
⁷And I will winnow them with a winnowing fan in the gates of the land;
I will ^(M)bereave them of children;
I will destroy My people,
Since they ^(N)do not return from their ways.
⁸Their widows will be increased to Me more than the sand of the seas;
I will bring against them,
Against the mother of the young men,
A plunderer at noonday;
I will cause anguish and terror to fall on them ^(O)suddenly.

⁹“She^(P) languishes who has borne seven;
She has breathed her last;
^(Q)Her sun has gone down
While it was yet day;
She has been ashamed and confounded.
And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword
Before their enemies,” says the Lord.