Jeremiah 15:5–9

5 “For who will have compassion on you, O Jerusalem,

or who will show sympathy to you,

or who will turn aside ⌊to ask about your welfare⌋?h

6 You have forsaken me,” ⌊declares⌋i Yahweh.

“You go backward, so I have stretched my hand against you,

and I have destroyed you.

I am tired of becoming remorseful.

7 And I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land.

I am bereaved.

I have destroyed my people.

They did not turn back from their ways.

8 Their widowsj will be more numerous before me than the sand of the seas.

I have brought to them, against the mothersk of young men,l

a destroyer at noon.

I will suddenly drop on her anguish and horror.m

9 She who gave birth to seven has withered away.

She gasps her breath.

Her sun ⌊set⌋n while still day.

She has been put to shame and disgraced.

And the remainder of them I will give to the sword

⌊before⌋o their enemies,” ⌊declares⌋p Yahweh.