Jeremiah 15:5–11

⁵For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or ⁱwho shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest? ^6kThou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art ^lgone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; ^mI am weary with repenting. ⁷And I will ⁿfan them with ^oa fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them ^pof children, I will destroy my people, sith ^qthey return not from their ways. ⁸Their widows are increased to me ^rabove the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler ^sat noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and ^tterrors upon the city. ^9uShe that hath borne seven languisheth: ^vshe hath given up the ghost; ^wher sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the Lord.

^10xWoe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither ^ylent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me. ¹¹The Lord said, Verily ^zit shall be well with thy remnant; verily ^aI will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil, and in the time of affliction.