6 You have left me.”w

This is the Lord’s declaration.

“You have turned your back,

so I have stretched out my hand against you

and destroyed you.

I am tiredx of showing compassion.

7 I scattered them with a winnowing fork

at the city gates of the land.

I made them childless; I destroyed my people.

They would not turn from their ways.y

8 I made their widows more numerous

than the sand of the seas.z

I brought a destroyer at noon

against the mother of young men.

I suddenly released on her

agitation and terrors.

9 The mother of seven grew faint;aa

she breathed her last breath.

Her sun set while it was still day;

she was ashamed and humiliated.

The rest of them I will give over to the sword

in the presence of their enemies.”

This is the Lord’s declaration.