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For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem?
    Who will mourn you?
    Who will come to ask of your welfare?
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.
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.
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.
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.

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“Indeed, who will have (A)pity on you, Jerusalem,
Or who will (B)mourn for you,
Or who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?
You who have (C)forsaken Me,” declares the Lord,
“You keep (D)going backward.
So I will (E)stretch out My hand against you and destroy you;
I am (F)tired of relenting!
I will (G)winnow them with a winnowing fork
At the gates of the land;
I will (H)bereave them of children, I will destroy My people;
(I)They did not [a]repent of their ways.
Their (J)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 (K)destroyer at noon;
I will suddenly bring down on her
Shock and horror.
She who (L)gave birth to seven sons withers away;
[b]Her breathing is labored.
Her (M)sun has set while it was still day;
She has been (N)shamed and humiliated.
So I will (O)turn over their survivors to the sword
Before their enemies,” declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 15:7 Lit turn back from
  2. Jeremiah 15:9 Or She has breathed out her soul