Jeremiah 15:1-9

New American Standard Bible

Judgment Must Come

15 Then the Lord said to me, “Even ^(A)if ^(B)Moses and ^(C)Samuel were to ^(D)stand before Me, My ^[a]heart would not be ^[b]with this people. ^(E)Send them away from My presence and have them go! ²And it shall be that when they say to you, ‘Where should we go?’ then you are to tell them, ‘This is what the Lord says:

“Those destined ^(F)for death, to death;
And those destined for the sword, to the sword;
And those destined for famine, to famine;
And those destined for captivity, to captivity.”’

³And I will ^(G)appoint over them four kinds of doom,” declares the Lord: “the sword to kill, the ^(H)dogs to drag away, and the ^(I)birds of the sky and the animals of the earth to devour and destroy. ⁴I will ^(J)make them an object of terror among all the kingdoms of the earth because of ^(K)Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

⁵“Indeed, who will have ^(L)pity on you, Jerusalem,
Or who will ^(M)mourn for you,
Or who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?
⁶You who have ^(N)forsaken Me,” declares the Lord,
“You keep ^(O)going backward.
So I will ^(P)stretch out My hand against you and destroy you;
I am ^(Q)tired of relenting!
⁷I will ^(R)winnow them with a winnowing fork
At the gates of the land;
I will ^(S)bereave them of children, I will destroy My people;
^(T)They did not ^[c]repent of their ways.
⁸Their ^(U)widows will be more numerous before Me
Than the sand of the seas;
I will bring against them, against the mother of a young man,
A ^(V)destroyer at noon;
I will suddenly bring down on her
Shock and horror.
⁹She who ^(W)gave birth to seven sons withers away;
^[d]Her breathing is labored.
Her ^(X)sun has set while it was still day;
She has been ^(Y)shamed and humiliated.
So I will ^(Z)turn over their survivors to the sword
Before their enemies,” declares the Lord.