Jeremiah 15:6-8

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⁶^(A)You have rejected me, declares the Lord;
    ^(B)you keep going backward,
so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you—
    ^(C)I am weary of relenting.
⁷^(D)I have winnowed them with ^(E)a winnowing fork
    in the gates of the land;
I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people;
    ^(F)they did not turn from their ways.
⁸I have made their widows more in number
    than ^(G)the sand of the seas;
I have brought against the mothers of young men
    a destroyer at noonday;
I have made anguish and terror
    fall upon them suddenly.

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Jeremiah 16:10-13

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¹⁰“And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, ^(A)‘Why has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’ ¹¹then you shall say to them: ^(B)‘Because your fathers have forsaken me, declares the Lord, and ^(C)have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law, ¹²and because ^(D)you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, ^(E)every one of you follows his stubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me. ¹³Therefore ^(F)I will hurl you out of this land into ^(G)a land that neither you nor your fathers have known, ^(H)and there you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’