“I will ordain four kinds[a] of judgment for them”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away,(A) and the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land(B) to devour and destroy. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh(C) son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 15:3 Lit families

“And I will summon[a] over them four types of calamity,” declares[b] Yahweh, “the sword to kill, and the dogs to drag away, and the birds[c] of the air and the wild animals[d] of the earth to devour and to destroy. And I will make them a terror to all of the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, because of what he did in Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 15:3 Or “appoint”
  2. Jeremiah 15:3 Literally “a declaration of”
  3. Jeremiah 15:3 Hebrew “bird”
  4. Jeremiah 15:3 Hebrew “wild animal”