Jeremiah 15:5–11

⁵Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? ^q

Who will show sympathy toward you? ^r

Who will turn aside

to ask about your welfare?

⁶You have left Me. ^s

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 tired ^tof showing compassion.

⁷I scattered them with a winnowing fork

at the gates of the land.

I made them childless; I destroyed My people.

They would not turn from their ways. ^u

⁸I made their widows more numerous

than the sand of the seas. ^v

I brought a destroyer at noon

against the mother of young men.

I suddenly released on her

agitation and terrors.

⁹The mother of seven grew faint; ^w

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.

Jeremiah’s Complaint

¹⁰Woe is me, my mother,

that you gave birth to me, ^x

a man who incites dispute and conflict

in all the land.

I did not lend or borrow,

yet everyone curses me. ^y

The Lord’s Response

¹¹The Lord said:

I will certainly set you free and care for you. ^z

I will certainly intercede for you

in a time of trouble,

in your time of distress, with the enemy.