19 Have you completely rejected Judah?

Or has your soulm loathed Zion?

Why have you struck us

so that there is no healing for us?

We hope for peace, but there is no good,

and for a time of healing, but look, there is terror.

20 We know, O Yahweh, our wickedness,

the iniquity of our ancestors,n

for we have sinned against you.

21 You must not spurn uso for the sake of your name,

you must not dishonor ⌊your glorious throne⌋.p

Remember us!q

You must not break your covenant with us.

22 Are there any among the idols of the nation who cause rain to pour?

Or can the heavens give showers?

Is it not you, O Yahweh our God?

Therefore, we hope in you, for you do all these things.

Four Types of Calamity

15 Then Yahweh said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood ⌊before me⌋,a my heart would not be to this people. Send them away from my ⌊sight⌋,b and let them go out. 2 ⌊And then⌋c if they say to you, ‘Where shall we go?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh,

“Those who are destined for the plague, to the plague,

and those who are destined for the sword, to the sword,

and those who are destined for the famine, to the famine,

and those who are destined for the captivity, to the captivity.” ’

3 “And I will summond over them four types of calamity,” ⌊declares⌋e Yahweh, “the sword to kill, and the dogs to drag away, and the birdsf of the air and the wild animalsg of the earth to devour and to destroy. 4 And I will make them a terror to all of the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, because of what he did in Jerusalem.

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.