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1 Then said the LORD [Yahweh] to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, [yet] my mind [could] not [be] toward this people: cast [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth.
2 And it will come to pass, if they say to you, Where will we go forth? then you will tell them, Thus says the LORD [Yahweh]; Such as [are] for death, to death; and such as [are] for the sword, to the sword; and such as [are] for the famine, to the famine; and such as [are] for the captivity, to the captivity.
3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, says the LORD [Yahweh]: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for [that] which he did in Jerusalem.
5 For who will have pity upon you, O Jerusalem? or who will bemoan you? or who will go aside to ask how you do ?
6 You have forsaken me, says the LORD [Yahweh], you are gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary with repenting.
7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave [them] of children, I will destroy my people, [since] they return not from their ways.
8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused [him] to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
9 She that has borne seven languishes: she has given up the spirit; her sun is gone down while [it was] yet day: she has been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD [Yahweh].
10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; [yet] every one of them does curse me.
11 The LORD [Yahweh] said, Truly it will be well with your remnant; truly I will cause the enemy to entreat you [well] in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
12 Will iron break the northern iron and the steel?
13 Your substance and your treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and [that] for all your sins, even in all your borders.
14 And I will make [you] to pass with your enemies into a land [which] you know not: for a fire is kindled in my anger, [which] will burn upon you.
15 O LORD [Yahweh], you know: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.
16 Your words were found, and I ate them; and your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, O LORD [Yahweh] God of hosts.
17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand: for you have filled me with indignation.
18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which] refuses to be healed? will you be altogether to me as a liar, [and as] waters [that] fail?
19 Therefore thus says the LORD [Yahweh], If you return, then will I bring you again, [and] you will stand before me: and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth: let them return to you; but return not you to them.
20 And I will make you to this people a fenced brasen wall: and they will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you: for I [am] with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD [Yahweh].
21 And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.