Jeremiah 15:10–21

^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. ¹²Shall iron break ^bthe northern iron and ^cthe steel? ^13dThy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil ^ewithout price, and that for all thy sins, ^deven in all thy borders. ¹⁴And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into ^fa land which thou knowest not: ^gfor a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.

^15hO Lord, thou knowest: ⁱremember me, and visit me, and ^ikrevenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: ^kkknow that ^lfor thy sake I have suffered rebuke. ¹⁶Thy words were found, and ^mI did eat them; and ⁿthy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for ^†I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts. ^17oI sat not in ^pthe assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; ^ppI sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation. ¹⁸Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound ^qincurable, which ^rrefuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me ^sas a liar, and ^sas waters that ^†fail?

¹⁹Therefore thus saith the Lord, ^tIf thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt ^tustand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them. ²⁰And I ^vwill make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but ^wthey shall not prevail against thee: ^xfor I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the Lord. ²¹And ^wI will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of ^ythe terrible.