¹⁶ “As for you, ^(A)do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you.

¹⁴ “Therefore ^(A)do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, ^(B)for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.

The Lord Will Not Relent

15 Then the Lord said to me, ^(A)“Though ^(B)Moses ^(C)and Samuel ^(D)stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!

¹¹ The Lord said to me: ^(A)“Do not pray for the welfare of this people. ¹² Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, ^(B)and though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them ^(C)by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”

¹⁰ Now therefore ^(A)let me alone, that ^(B)my wrath may burn hot against them and ^(C)I may consume them, in order that ^(D)I may make a great nation of you.”

^14 (A)even if these three men, ^(B)Noah, ^(C)Daniel, and ^(D)Job, were in it, ^(E)they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God.

^15 (F)“If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, ^(G)and it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts, ¹⁶ even if these three men were in it, ^(H)as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They alone would be delivered, but ^(I)the land would be desolate.

¹⁷ “Or ^(J)if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, ^(K)and I cut off from it man and beast, ^18 (L)though these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered.

¹⁹ “Or ^(M)if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast, ²⁰ even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.

¹⁶ If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and ^(A)God^[a] will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. ^(B)There is sin that leads to death; ^(C)I do not say that one should pray for that.