15Then the LORD said to me, "Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!H559H3068H4872H8050H5975H6440H5315H5971H7971H6440H3318

2And when they ask you, 'Where shall we go?' you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD: "'Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity.'H559H3318H559H559H3068H4194H4194H2719H2719H7458H7458H7628H7628

3I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.H6485H702H4940H5002H3068H2719H2026H3611H5498H5775H8064H929H776H398H7843

4And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.H5414H2189H2113H4467H776H1558H4519H1121H3169H4428H3063H6213H3389

5"Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, or who will grieve for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?H2550H3389H5110H5493H7592H7965

6You have rejected me, declares the LORD; you keep going backward, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you— I am weary of relenting.H5203H5002H3068H3212H268H5186H3027H7843H3811H5162

7I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people; they did not turn from their ways.H2219H4214H8179H776H7921H6H5971H7725H1870

8I have made their widows more in number than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of young men a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon them suddenly.H490H6105H2344H3220H935H517H970H7703H6672H5307H6597H928H5892

9She who bore seven has grown feeble; she has fainted away; her sun went down while it was yet day; she has been shamed and disgraced. And the rest of them I will give to the sword before their enemies, declares the LORD."H3205H7651H535H5301H5315H8121H935H3119H3117H954H2659H7611H5414H2719H6440H341H5002H3068

10Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.H188H517H3205H376H7379H376H4066H776H5383H5383H7043

11The LORD said, "Have I not set you free for their good? Have I not pleaded for you before the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress?H3068H559H3808H518H2896H8281H8293H518H341H6293H6256H7451H6256H6869

12Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze?H1270H7489H6828H1270H5178

13"Your wealth and your treasures I will give as spoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory.H2428H214H5414H957H4242H2403H1366

14I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever."H5674H341H776H3045H784H6919H639H3344

15O LORD, you know; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In your forbearance take me not away; know that for your sake I bear reproach.H3068H3045H2142H6485H5358H7291H3947H639H750H3045H5375H2781

16Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O LORD, God of hosts.H1697H4672H398H1697H8342H8057H3824H7121H8034H3068H430H6635

17I did not sit in the company of revelers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone, because your hand was upon me, for you had filled me with indignation.H3427H5475H7832H5937H3427H910H6440H3027H4390H2195

18Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?H3511H5331H4347H605H3985H7495H391H4325H539

19Therefore thus says the LORD: "If you return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them.H559H3068H7725H7725H5975H6440H3318H3368H2151H6310H7725H7725

20And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, declares the LORD.H5414H5971H1219H5178H2346H3898H3201H3467H5337H5002H3068

21I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless."H5337H3027H7451H6299H3709H6184