¹⁶ So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.

⁵ Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do ^(A)the works you did at first. If not, ^(B)I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

⁸ In one month ^(A)I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me. ⁹ So I said, “I will not be your shepherd. ^(B)What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another.”

The Lord Will Not Relent

15 Then the Lord said to me, ^(A)“Though ^(B)Moses ^(C)and Samuel ^(D)stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go! ² And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord:

^3 (F)I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and ^(G)the birds of the air ^(H)and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. ^4 (I)And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what ^(J)Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.