Jeremiah 15:5-9
Lexham English Bible
5 “For who will have compassion on you, O Jerusalem,
or who will show sympathy to you,
or who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?[a]
6 You have forsaken me,” declares[b] Yahweh.
“You go backward, so I have stretched my hand against you,
and I have destroyed you.
I am tired of becoming remorseful.
7 And I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land.
I am bereaved.
I have destroyed my people.
They did not turn back from their ways.
8 Their widows[c] will be more numerous before me than the sand of the seas.
I have brought to them, against the mothers[d] of young men,[e]
a destroyer at noon.
I will suddenly drop on her anguish and horror.[f]
9 She who gave birth to seven has withered away.
She gasps her breath.
Her sun set[g] while still day.
She has been put to shame and disgraced.
And the remainder of them I will give to the sword
before[h] their enemies,” declares[i] Yahweh.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 15:5 Literally “to ask to the welfare of you”
- Jeremiah 15:6 Literally “a declaration of”
- Jeremiah 15:8 Hebrew “widow”
- Jeremiah 15:8 Hebrew “mother”
- Jeremiah 15:8 Hebrew “man”
- Jeremiah 15:8 Hebrew “horrors”
- Jeremiah 15:9 Literally “came”
- Jeremiah 15:9 Literally “to the face of”
- Jeremiah 15:9 Literally “a declaration of”
Jeremiah 15:5-9
World English Bible
5 For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem?
Who will mourn you?
Who will come to ask of your welfare?
6 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.
7 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.
8 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.
9 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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