The People Plead for Mercy

19 (A)Have You utterly rejected Judah?
Has Your soul loathed Zion?
Why have You stricken us so that (B)there is no healing for us?
(C)We looked for peace, but there was no good;
And for the time of healing, and there was trouble.

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19 Have you rejected Judah completely?(A)
    Do you despise Zion?
Why have you afflicted us
    so that we cannot be healed?(B)
We hoped for peace
    but no good has come,
for a time of healing
    but there is only terror.(C)

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19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

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22 Unless You have utterly rejected us,
And are very angry with us!

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22 unless you have utterly rejected us(A)
    and are angry with us beyond measure.(B)

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22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

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15 We (A)looked for peace, but no good came;
And for a time of health, and there was trouble!

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15 We hoped for peace(A)
    but no good has come,
for a time of healing
    but there is only terror.(B)

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15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

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For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then (A)sudden destruction comes upon them, (B)as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.

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While people are saying, “Peace and safety,”(A) destruction will come on them suddenly,(B) as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.(C)

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For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

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30 People will call them (A)rejected silver,
Because the Lord has rejected them.”

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30 They are called rejected silver,(A)
    because the Lord has rejected them.”(B)

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30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.

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13 There is no one to plead your cause,
That you may be bound up;
(A)You have no healing medicines.

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13 There is no one to plead your cause,(A)
    no remedy for your sore,
    no healing(B) for you.

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13 There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.

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18 Why is my (A)pain perpetual
And my wound incurable,
Which refuses to be healed?
Will You surely be to me (B)like an unreliable stream,
As waters that [a]fail?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 15:18 Or cannot be trusted

18 Why is my pain unending
    and my wound grievous and incurable?(A)
You are to me like a deceptive brook,
    like a spring that fails.(B)

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18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

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My heritage is to Me like a lion in the forest;
It cries out against Me;
Therefore I have (A)hated it.

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My inheritance has become to me
    like a lion(A) in the forest.
She roars at me;
    therefore I hate her.(B)

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Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.

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59 When God heard this, He was furious,
And greatly abhorred Israel,

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59 When God heard(A) them, he was furious;(B)
    he rejected Israel(C) completely.

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59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

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