Jeremiah 15:5-9

World English Bible

⁵ For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem?
    Who will mourn you?
    Who will come to ask of your welfare?
⁶ You have rejected me,” says Yahweh.
    “You have gone backward.
Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you
    and destroyed you.
    I am weary of showing compassion.
⁷ I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land.
    I have bereaved them of children.
I have destroyed my people.
    They didn’t return from their ways.
⁸ Their widows are increased more than the sand of the seas.
    I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday.
    I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.
⁹ She who has borne seven languishes.
    She has given up the spirit.
Her sun has gone down while it was yet day.
    She has been disappointed and confounded.
    I will deliver their residue to the sword before their enemies,” says Yahweh.