Jeremiah 15:5-9

Common English Bible

⁵ Who will pity you, Jerusalem?
    Who will shed tears over you?
    Who will stop and ask how you’re doing?
⁶ You have deserted me,
        declares the Lord.
    You have turned your back on me.
    So I will turn my hand against you
        and destroy you.
I’m tired of holding back.
⁷     I will winnow them with a winnowing fork
        at the gates of their country.
I will bereave and destroy my people
    because they haven’t changed their ways.
⁸ Their widows will outnumber
    the sand on the shore.
I will bring a destroyer in broad daylight
    against the mothers of young men.^[a]
Suddenly I will bring distress
    and terror upon them.
⁹ The mother of seven
    will grow weak and gasp for air;
        her sun will set while it is yet day;
        she will be ashamed and disgraced.
    I will deliver the survivors to the sword,
    to the power of their enemies,
        declares the Lord.